[OE-core] OE-Core Release Status

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42:46PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> We're now at -rc2 for the October release of OE-Core. I've noticed a
> sudden surge of patches on the list, several of which are things like
> version increments which are no longer really appropriate at this point
> in the release cycle.
> 
> Why haven't we branched?
> 
> The plus side of branching now would be continued patches into master.
> The downside is that QA and autobuilder resources are concentrating on
> release and hence not on ensuring regressions are being added. I also
> really need my energy focused on the release rather than reviewing other
> code. I'm out of bandwidth so I'm putting off branching.
> 
> There is also the risk that if we branch, people will continue with
> master development and ignore the release branch and I'd like to apply a
> little pressure against this.
> 
> So if patches are getting ignored its likely they've been deemed not
> suited to the state of the tree right now. I may start to queue things
> on master-next but no guarantees and I would ask people to try and help
> make the release a good one.
> 
> If there are patches being ignored you think do qualify for -rcX, please
> ping me as it is hard to keep track of everything.

I don't know what to do with tune* and qt patchset.

This one is not important, but if you like the idea then it would be
better to get it in this release already:
[PATCH] kernel.bbclass: include PE in KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME

And I have 2 patches to remove time dependent variables from images
which I haven't sent to ML yet, because still testing if it has some bad
sideeffect and if it's enough to resolve the issue I was seeing.
I'll send them as RFC.

commit 9c65f68dc380be34f06c4677d6867bbb874a75d1
Author: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 26 15:56:05 2012 +0200

    bitbake.conf: exclude DATETIME var dependency from IMAGE_NAME
    
    * resolves ERROR shown when bitbake -S is used for image:
      ERROR: Bitbake's cached basehash does not match the one we just generated
      (/OE/oe-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb.do_rootfs)!
      ERROR: The mismatched hashes were 8c35cdf8a5d09c03941f081dd9f6d8dc and b5d6e2e5952770557c48c5779ddb73fc
    
    Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>

commit 7173532f91a755911e4822a103c98e7b81b18cb6
Author: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 26 00:57:21 2012 +0200

    rootfs_*.bbclass: exclude BUILDNAME var dependency from do_rootfs
    
    * I have kernel recipe which depends on other recipe to build tiny initramfs
      image, without this change it rebuilds not only that initramfs image
      but also whole kernel when DATE or TIME is changed and OEBasicHash enabled
    * also resolves ERROR shown when bitbake -S is used for image:
      ERROR: Bitbake's cached basehash does not match the one we just generated
      (/OE/oe-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb.do_rootfs)!
      ERROR: The mismatched hashes were 8c35cdf8a5d09c03941f081dd9f6d8dc and b5d6e2e5952770557c48c5779ddb73fc
    
    Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>

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