[yocto] Dogfooding and usability testing Toaster

[Barros Pena, Belen]

On 10/04/2014 11:14, "Paul Eggleton" <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday 09 April 2014 16:39:38 Chris Larson wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Rudolf Streif
><rudolf.streif at linux.com>wrote:
>> > That is exciting. I just ran with it and started a build with toaster
>>in
>> > 
>> > the background. A couple of observations from the get-go:
>> >    - South 0.8.4 is also needed in addition to Django. The Toaster
>>Wiki
>> >    [1] does not say that but the Contribute to Toaster page [2] does.
>> >    - You need to run 'sudo pip install ...' for Django and South
>> >    otherwise the installation fails with 'permission denied' for
>> >    /usr/lib/python2.7

Thanks for this. We'll make sure to update the wiki.


>> >    - Clicking on "Show me the manual" in the Toaster UI directs to [3]
>> >    which requires a log in

Ah, yes: the manual is not ready yet, so its web page is not published.
That's why you are being asked to log in. It should be ready by release
time.

>> >    - Is it possible to relocate/rename the toaster.sqlite database via
>> >    configuration setting? If so, could I use the same database for
>> >    different
>> >    build environments?

I believe you can, although Alex Damien is the one who can explain the
details. The information here:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Toaster#Setting_up_a_Toaster_Instance_on
_a_Remote_Host

might also answer some questions.

>> 
>> Side note: you can use pip install --user ... rather than sudo pip, to
>> install it to your user site-packages directory under ~/.local, which
>>won't
>> impact the rest of the system.
>
>I'd like to see this documented using virtualenv [1] to install the
>additional 
>packages - it's so much cleaner than any other solution.

Good point. I'll look into getting that going.

Belén

>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
>[1] For those who aren't familiar with virtualenv:
>http://simononsoftware.com/virtualenv-tutorial/
>
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