On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 13-04-08 12:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> >
> > > On 13-04-08 11:41 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > >
> > > > finally have the time to work my way through the ELC 2013 hands on
> > > > kernel labs described here:
> > > >
> > > > https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/presentations/working-kernel
> > > >
> > > > since i'll almost certainly use some of them in my next yocto course,
> > > > so the occasional question for anyone who's already been down this
> > > > road. start with lab 1.
> > > >
> > > > the doc mentions including the meta-yocto and meta-yocto-bsp layers
> > > > -- are those strictly necessary? the layer.conf definition file for
> > > > the lab1 layer doesn't list those layers as dependencies. what will
> > > > happen if i leave them out? what's the policy on explicitly listing
> > > > dependencies on those two layers in a new layer?
> > > >
> > > > also, just doing a basic fetch for lab1 produces:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: QA Issue:
> > > > /home/rpjday/yocto/k_lab/layers/meta-lab1-qemux86/recipes-kernel/linux/linux_3.0.18.bb:
> > > > Variable FILES is set as not being package specific, please fix this.
> > > >
> > > > is that deliberate? something that will be resolved later in the
> > > > lab as part of an exercise? just curious.
> > >
> > > Probably not deliberate, the kernel labs aren't about packaging.
> > > Which branch are you using for your tests ? Even if it's an old
> > > release branch, there may have been some QA backports between the
> > > time the lab was done, and the time you are running it.
> >
> > i'm using HEAD for everything, even though the labs dictate
> > poky-danny-8.0.1; if anything breaks because of that, i'll make a note
> > of it.
>
> That's what I wondered. These were all done against 1.3, so the QA
> warning (and other issues you'll see) are very likely caused by this
> skew. For the next round of conferences, there are plans to update
> them to use 1.4 and get required cleanup.
okey dokey.
rday
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