[yocto] Which repo for meta-altera ?

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 10:02:03 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> (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?

Please use github.com/kraj/meta-altera as mentioned in layerindex as
well. This is the community supported 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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