[OE-core] Snaps on Yocto/OpenEmbedded

[Simon Fels]

On 01.08.2016 16:06, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Simon Fels <morphis at gravedo.de 
> <mailto:morphis at gravedo.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey everyone,
> 
>     I've worked on a new layer recently which brings snaps to any
>     Yocto/OpenEmbedded based system.
> 
>     If you have never heard about snaps yet you will find most details at
>     http://snapcraft.io/ but generally snaps are a new packaging format made
>     with security and fast updates in mind and allows applications to be
>     packaged once but run everywhere no matter of the distribution used or a
>     particular device type.
> 
>     The layer is currently named meta-snappy and is available at
>     https://github.com/morphis/meta-snappy
> 
> 
> I had a quick browse this morning, and one question that jumped to mind was
> if the oe-meta-go layer was causing problems for go/go-cross support ? I was
> carrying some go/go-inc changes in meta-virtualization as well, but recent reports
> are that oe-meta-go should work for everything now.
> 
> I'm just asking, since it doesn't make sense for meta-virt or other layers to
> continue to carry go build infrastructure when it could be unified.
When I started to put meta-snappy together I ran into different problems
with oe-meta-go and then reused what you put into meta-virt. I have the
point on my TODO list to check if we can just switch to oe-meta-go
rather than shipping go-cross on our own.

regards,
Simon