[yocto] Which repo for meta-altera ?

[Paul Eggleton]

(Adding Khem and Yves, the maintainers of the github repo, to CC)

In the interests of keeping the layer index accurate, can we get some 
clarification on which repo is the official BSP?

Thanks,
Paul

On Thursday 30 July 2015 06:52:22 Spriggs, Jim wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Rodger, got it this time – I had indeed missed the clue about the
> maintainers.
 
> I should RTFM more often….
> 
> Many thanks for your help and patience ☺.
> --
> jim
> 
> Von: enak999 at googlemail.com [mailto:enak999 at googlemail.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2015 22:37
> An: Dalon Westergreen <dwesterg at gmail.com>; Spriggs, Jim
> <J.Spriggs at raylase.de>; Alex J Lennon <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk>
 Cc:
> yocto at yoctoproject.org; rfi at lists.rocketboards.org
> Betreff: Re: [yocto] Which repo for meta-altera ?
> 
> As you can read in the ReadMe.md Khem Raj and Yves Vandervennet are the
> official maintainers of
> github.com/altera-opensource/meta-altera<http://github.com/altera-opensourc
> e/meta-altera>
 
> I really recommend to use
> github.com/altera-opensource/meta-altera<http://github.com/altera-opensourc
> e/meta-altera> instead of the fork from Khem Raj. But since you use the fork
> of one of the maintainers, it will probably be most of the time in synch
> with the altera-opensource repository.
 
> Von: Dalon Westergreen<mailto:dwesterg at gmail.com>
> Gesendet: ‎Mittwoch‎, ‎29‎. ‎Juli‎ ‎2015 ‎21‎:‎54
> An: Spriggs, Jim<mailto:J.Spriggs at raylase.de>, Alex J
> Lennon<mailto:ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk>, Kevin
> B.<mailto:enak999 at googlemail.com>
 Cc:
> yocto at yoctoproject.org<mailto:yocto at yoctoproject.org>,
> rfi at lists.rocketboards.org<mailto:rfi at lists.rocketboards.org> 
> As far as I understand it Altera only maintains the one repo.
> On July 29, 2015 6:44:23 AM PDT, "Spriggs, Jim"
> <J.Spriggs at raylase.de<mailto:J.Spriggs at raylase.de>> wrote:
 
> Hi Alex, Dalon, Kevin, Lists
> 
> hmmm, so I guess I'm still confused (sorry).
> 
> Alex recommends going via the "official" oe layers index, which currently
> links directly to
> github.com/kraj/meta-altera<http://github.com/kraj/meta-altera>.
 
> Kevin and Dalon hold out for
> github.com/altera-opensource/meta-altera<http://github.com/altera-opensourc
> e/meta-altera>, and Dalon specifically says "... and repos under any user
> name in github are forks".
 
> So is there an official ;-) dichotomy between altera and oe?
> 
> Thanks for listening...
> --
> jim
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alex J Lennon [mailto:ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2015 15:10
> An: Spriggs, Jim <J.Spriggs at raylase.de<mailto:J.Spriggs at raylase.de>>
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org<mailto:yocto at yoctoproject.org>
> Betreff: Re: [yocto] Which repo for meta-altera ?
> 
> 
> 
> On 28/07/2015 10:10, Spriggs, Jim
> 
> wrote:
> 
>  Hi Guys; confused noob here...
> 
>  There appear to be (at least) two "official" repos for meta-altera:
> 
>          github.com/kraj/meta-altera<http://github.com/kraj/meta-altera>
> 
>  and
> 
>         
> git.rocketboards.org/meta-altera.git<http://git.rocketboards.org/meta-alter
> a.git>
 
> 
>  So how should I choose between them?
> 
>  Thanks!
>  --
>  Jim
> 
>  Sorry about the company sig.: I can't switch it off.
> 
> 
> fwiw I would usually start with the official index
> 
> http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layers/
> 
> This seems to point to github
> 
> Cheers, Alex
> 
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