On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 01:42:06 -0700 akuster808 <akuster...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/17/2017 06:21 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: > > On 2017-03-18 00:55, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've got a pre-alpha 'distro' and some layers I think that could > >> get to an interesting state. The intent is to work them up to > >> where they are suitable to be submitted as patches to oe-core > >> rather than the current .bbappend and related files. > >> > >> There's rather a lot of reading (which is good in the sense that I > >> like actually have documentation, although that's definitely an > >> area I need to improve on for the layers I've got in the works), > >> and I haven't nearly got through it all yet, but I was hoping for > >> pointers on the most important bits to read for prepping patches > >> submission. > > > > Have you read this? > > http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded > > To be honest, OE-core does not even comply to the basic standard of a > README. It missing patch submission info like many other layers do Hmmm...just looked at master and there is a pointer to the wiki (which I would considered the canonical location and better than duplicating in multiple repos). > nor does in include the Maintainer. That's in 'meta/conf/bitbake.conf' or per-recipe (since there is no single maintainer for the whole layer IIRC). Regards, Daniel > > - armin > > > >> > >> Also, in the layers list I'll be asking about some build issues > >> that I don't see with a manual bitbake, that look like missing > >> preqs on a build server, unless the layer should be requesting > >> installation of host files somewhere. > > > > Some tools required by ${HOSTTOOLS} are missing: > > cpio chrpath gawk diffstat makeinfo > > > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
