[yocto] meta-mono core-image-mono failing

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 09:29 +0100, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> On 22/05/2014 09:23, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 00:23 +0100, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> >> Thanks Stefan.  > daisy was my suspicion but that seemed unlikely so I
> >> have a clean Fedora build underway with daisy / meta-mono /
> >> core-image-mono to prove it to myself as a first pass before trying master.
> >>
> >> As I do this I am thinking it would be nice if there were canonical
> >> images of Yocto-X.Y available to run up on Amazon/Azure/elsewhere to
> >> prove these things out in the background without mashing my SSDs.
> >>
> >> I am guessing somebody has done this already but I hunted around Amazon
> >> and couldn't see any community images that looked useful (?)
> >>
> >> Similarly (and I confess I haven't yet had time to understand
> >> AutoBuilder as I should) presumably there are a number of daily builds
> >> in the cloud, on each of the supported host platforms, for each of the
> >> advertised layers, and if they fail then maintainers are kicked? Is that
> >> how things work? If so, can you advise how I request to add meta-mono to
> >> the kick-list?
> > Its a nice idea but right now we struggle to test and keep OE-Core
> > building, let alone trying to define tests for every other layer :(. The
> > amount of time I and others spend on this for OE-Core is phenomenal.
> 
> I can well imagine Richard! I've often wondered how the team(s) manage
> to keep everything running along so smoothly.
> 
> >
> > If we had more people and resources, sure but right now there is no such
> > setup.
> 
> Like you I'm very time constrained here unfortunately, but I like the
> idea of having some baseline VM images ready to go on Amazon or Azure as
> a starting point for testing at least.
> 
> If such a thing hasn't already been done I might try to put those
> together. If I do get around to it I'll you know (if of interest)

FWIW we do have the build-appliance image and that is able to run builds
within it. It sounds like you just need a slightly different version of
that (with the UI removed).

Cheers,

Richard