[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 00/32] Ready for Final ACK & Pull

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 08:32 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> I updated this by removing the connman patch as suggested by Ross. I
> chose to leave in the Read-Only rootfs, as I have talked with Qi and
> I will have him send a follow on patch to fix the internal patch header.
> 
> I have tested the read-only stuff locally.
> 
> Thanks
> 	Sau!
> The following changes since commit 57662d4f813d5795cac1529633db80a09efdb089:
> 
>   meta-skeleton: Add busybox config fragment example (2013-08-13 23:03:44 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib sgw/stage
>   http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=sgw/stage
> 
> Chen Qi (14):
>   opkg.inc: remove the obsolete POSTLOG variable
>   makedevs: support using user/group names in device table files
>   image.bbclass: create device table after package installation
>   device_table-minimal.txt: use user/group names instead of uid/gid
>   init-live.sh: make $ROOT_MOUNT/media writable when necessary
>   use a uniform way to determine whether rootfs is read-only

I don't like the above patch since it spawns a ton of processes at boot
time. We can do better...

>   udev: remove implicit dependency on initscripts
>   populate-volatile.sh: use $ROOT_DIR/var/volatile/tmp as TMPDIR
>   populate-volatile.sh: don't spawn background process at rootfs time
>   runqemu-internal: fix to start X correctly in live images
>   initscripts: use a uniform way to handle directories in read-only
>     rootfs
>   populate-volatile.sh: use 'cp -a' to avoid potential problem
>   irda-utils: fix for read-only rootfs
>   openssh: fix for read-only rootfs
> 
> Cristiana Voicu (1):
>   systemtap: upgrade to 2.3
> 
> Martin Jansa (5):
>   at-spi2-core: add intltool-native dependency
>   gst-plugins-gl: add dependency on glew
>   xeyes: add dependency on libxrender
>   xrestop: add dependency on ncurses
>   qemu, default-providers: Add mesa as default virtual/egl
> 
> Muhammad Shakeel (3):
>   lighttpd: Replace spaces with tabs in shell function
>   rpcbind: Replace spaces with tabs in shell function
>   nfs-utils: Replace spaces with tabs in shell function
> 
> Otavio Salvador (1):
>   linux-dtb: Use kernel build system to generate the dtb files
> 
> Ross Burton (4):
>   cogl: GL/GLX feature cleanup
>   libmatchbox: upgrade to 1.11
>   matchbox-wm: fix icon handling on 64-bit hosts
>   wipe-sysroots: don't assume TMPDIR is under BUILDDIR
> 
> Saul Wold (2):
>   meta-skeleton: layer.conf Should also have .bbappend in example
>   texinfo: add perl RDEPENDS and fix up packaging
> 
> Stefan Herbrechtsmeier (1):
>   cmake.bbclass: Don't use packages from the native build machine
> 
> Wenzong Fan (1):
>   oe/path.py: call /bin/cp directly

Seriously? No. Add a sanity check and tell the user to fix their
environment if it will cause problems. There are a ton of other places
cp might fail have this issue, we're not hardcoding all of them.

Cheers,

Richard