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

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Fri May 4 06:50:48 UTC 2012


Op 4 mei 2012, om 08:32 heeft Martin Jansa het volgende geschreven:

> 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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