Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Paul, In message <3038126.PEqOPPdATB@helios> you wrote: > > > if you're on an allegedly supported distro, and you do an upgrade, > > it's entirely possible that one of those bits of software gets > > upgraded in a way that breaks OE/yocto, and by using ASSUME_PROVIDED, > > you'll automatica

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Well, we don't test with any other value of ASSUME_PROVIDED. If you > add tools to ASSUME_PROVIDED that we would have otherwise built so > that the host tools are used, we haven't tested the build with those > host tools. Equally if you remove items from

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Friday 23 November 2012 09:31:39 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Thursday 22 November 2012 06:54:33 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > first, is ASSUME_PROVIDED technically completely superfluous? > > > > > > it's clearly meant to speed up processing, but

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2012 06:54:33 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > first, is ASSUME_PROVIDED technically completely superfluous? > > it's clearly meant to speed up processing, but could one (if one > > wanted) unset it and have the processing still wor

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Thursday 22 November 2012 06:54:33 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 20:19:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 20:19:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > as i read it, the sanity.bbclass and ASSUME_PROVIDED will > > > > di

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 20:19:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > as i read it, the sanity.bbclass and ASSUME_PROVIDED will > > > dictate what needs to be there and what will be used if

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how > > to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what is > > pretty clearly contradictory information.

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Paul Eggleton
Robert P. J. Day > >Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org > >Subject: Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your > >yocto dev host > > > >On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i've noticed there are various web pages purport

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
>-Original Message- >From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- >boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:51 PM >To: Robert P. J. Day >Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org >Subject: Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how > to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what is > pretty clearly contradictory information. > > as one example, there's this page on getting