[OE-core] [PATCH] qemu-native: depend on unfs-server-native

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 08:13:06AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 3 mei 2012, om 13:51 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:39 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> Op 3 mei 2012, om 13:24 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
> >>> The whole point with the qemu emulated machines is that you build them
> >>> and they work for new users easily and efficiently. I don't think
> >>> calling bitbake to build them and force the user into another wait is a
> >>> good usability model to be promoting.
> >> 
> >> OE-core should set the right example and teaching people that a global
> >> IMAGE_DEPENDS is OK is not the right example. Especially when it
> >> actually causes breakage, see below.
> >> If people insist that IMAGE_DEPENDS is the one and only way to provide
> >> the runqemu experience then at least put a big comment in the file
> >> saying why it's done and why people shouldn't be copy/pasting it into
> >> their layers.
> >> And an indiciation where the line is drawn would be nice as well, I
> >> can imagine that someone wants to add amazon EC2 support to runqemu
> >> and sends a patch to add the EC2 tools to IMAGE_DEPENDS.
> > 
> > I'm happy to see a comment. The line is quite clear, the documentation
> > associated with the qemu images, the quick start guide and other manuals
> > assume we build qemu-native and friends and for usability this is a
> > clear win. The manuals do not document EC2 and it is not something we
> > expect a new user to need to do easily. Running an extra "bitbake xxx"
> > or including an extra configuration file would be perfectly reasonable
> > for those usage scenarios.
> > 
> >>> I'm also slightly bemused that in previous discussions you've implied
> >>> build time is less relevant then functionality yet here you're taking
> >>> the opposite stance :).
> >> 
> >> I get build *failures* for the qemu machines because I don't have mesa
> >> and sdl installed on the autobuilder. But you are right, I do think
> >> build time is less relevant than functionality.
> > 
> > We should also consider setting up PACKAGECONFIG options in the qemu
> > recipe for these things so you can specify to build qemu-native without
> > sdl/gl easily. I appreciate that is going to be pretty nasty
> > implementation wise but I think it would help and in fact if someone
> > files the bug I'll mark it as a P1 for 1.3 since that does help
> > usability a lot.
> 
> #2402 and it's already going the WONTFIX way

#2407 ?

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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