I am not in the habit of talking without knowing. Usually. There might be exceptions. This is not one. That being said, I was able to switch to qemu git recipe (instead of the tarball releases) and make it work for a git head just before 2.4.0RC0 in under 20 minutes. The patch was not submitted for inclusion into master however. I am not sure why the git recipe bothers everyone that much in this specific case, when I just explained that it was quite useful for me (and by extension, to the project). Thanks, Cristian
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Jansa [mailto:martin.ja...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 5:16 PM To: Iorga, Cristian Cc: Yang, Liezhi (Wind River); openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] qemu_git.bb: remove it On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:04:28PM +0000, Iorga, Cristian wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Hmm, > Qemu git recipe is useful, and is close to being up to date, why to remove > it?? Close to being up to date? Aren't you talking about ./meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_2.4.0-rc2.bb? bitbake@jama:/OE/webos/ow/oe-core$ find . -name qemu\*bb -exec grep PV.*= {} \; REALPV = "2.4.0-rc2" PV = "2.3.99+${REALPV}" PV = "1.3.0+git${SRCPV}" As Robert said, 1.3 version is old and current qemu_git recipe broken, because 04024dea2674861fcf13582a77b58130c67fccd8 isn't in master branch anymore after it was moved to stable-1.3 branch: bitbake@jama:/OE/projects/qemu$ git branch -a --contains 04024dea2674861fcf13582a77b58130c67fccd8 remotes/origin/stable-1.3 > Qemu brakes quite often, as seen recently on autobuilders, building > from git allowed us to move forward (although it is true that the git upgrade > was not integrated into master.) I vote against this patch. Regards, > > Thanks, > Cristian > > -----Original Message----- > From: openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org > [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of > Robert Yang > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 12:05 PM > To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > Subject: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] qemu_git.bb: remove it > > Remove it since we have 2.4.0, the git version is 1.3 can't be built > by > deafult: > ERROR: Fetcher failure: Unable to find revision > 04024dea2674861fcf13582a77b58130c67fccd8 in branch master even from > upstream > > We can fix it, but seems that no one uses it any more. > > And move patches from "files" dir to "qemu" dir. > > Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.y...@windriver.com> > --- > ...-Arm-versatilepb-Add-memory-size-checking.patch | 0 > .../exclude-some-arm-EABI-obsolete-syscalls.patch | 0 > .../qemu-enlarge-env-entry-size.patch | 0 > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_git.bb | 15 --------------- > 4 files changed, 15 deletions(-) > rename meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/{files => > qemu}/Qemu-Arm-versatilepb-Add-memory-size-checking.patch (100%) > rename meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/{files => > qemu}/exclude-some-arm-EABI-obsolete-syscalls.patch (100%) rename > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/{files => > qemu}/qemu-enlarge-env-entry-size.patch (100%) delete mode 100644 > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_git.bb > > diff --git > a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/Qemu-Arm-versatilepb-Add-memory-siz > e-checking.patch > b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu/Qemu-Arm-versatilepb-Add-memory-size > -checking.patch > similarity index 100% > rename from > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/Qemu-Arm-versatilepb-Add-memory-size- > checking.patch rename to > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu/Qemu-Arm-versatilepb-Add-memory-size-c > hecking.patch diff --git > a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/exclude-some-arm-EABI-obsolete-sysc > alls.patch > b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu/exclude-some-arm-EABI-obsolete-sysca > lls.patch > similarity index 100% > rename from > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/exclude-some-arm-EABI-obsolete-syscal > ls.patch rename to > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu/exclude-some-arm-EABI-obsolete-syscall > s.patch diff --git > a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/qemu-enlarge-env-entry-size.patch > b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu/qemu-enlarge-env-entry-size.patch > similarity index 100% > rename from > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/qemu-enlarge-env-entry-size.patch > rename to > meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu/qemu-enlarge-env-entry-size.patch > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_git.bb > b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_git.bb > deleted file mode 100644 > index a30932a..0000000 > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_git.bb > +++ /dev/null > @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ > -require qemu.inc > - > -SRCREV = "04024dea2674861fcf13582a77b58130c67fccd8" > - > -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=441c28d2cf86e15a37fa47e15a72fbac \ > - > file://COPYING.LIB;endline=24;md5=c04def7ae38850e7d3ef548588159913" > - > -PV = "1.3.0+git${SRCPV}" > - > -SRC_URI_prepend = "git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git" > -S = "${WORKDIR}/git" > - > -DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" > - > -COMPATIBLE_HOST_class-target_mips64 = "null" > -- > 1.7.9.5 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core