[yocto] [OE-core] Snaps on Yocto/OpenEmbedded

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Simon Fels <morphis at gravedo.de> wrote:
> On 01.08.2016 16:06, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Simon Fels <morphis at gravedo.de
>> <mailto:morphis at gravedo.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey everyone,
>>
>>     I've worked on a new layer recently which brings snaps to any
>>     Yocto/OpenEmbedded based system.
>>
>>     If you have never heard about snaps yet you will find most details at
>>     http://snapcraft.io/ but generally snaps are a new packaging format made
>>     with security and fast updates in mind and allows applications to be
>>     packaged once but run everywhere no matter of the distribution used or a
>>     particular device type.
>>
>>     The layer is currently named meta-snappy and is available at
>>     https://github.com/morphis/meta-snappy
>>
>>
>> I had a quick browse this morning, and one question that jumped to mind was
>> if the oe-meta-go layer was causing problems for go/go-cross support ? I was
>> carrying some go/go-inc changes in meta-virtualization as well, but recent reports
>> are that oe-meta-go should work for everything now.
>>
>> I'm just asking, since it doesn't make sense for meta-virt or other layers to
>> continue to carry go build infrastructure when it could be unified.
> When I started to put meta-snappy together I ran into different problems
> with oe-meta-go and then reused what you put into meta-virt. I have the
> point on my TODO list to check if we can just switch to oe-meta-go
> rather than shipping go-cross on our own.

The meta-golang seems to be the most up to date one. Likely the best
one to try to converge as a single place for go-cross provider.

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