[OE-core] Hints on submitting to OE-Core

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-03-18 00:55, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a pre-alpha 'distro' and some layers I think that could get to
> an interesting state.  The intent is to work them up to where they are
> suitable to be submitted as patches to oe-core rather than the
> current .bbappend and related files.
>
> There's rather a lot of reading (which is good in the sense that I like
> actually have documentation, although that's definitely an area I need
> to improve on for the layers I've got in the works), and I haven't
> nearly got through it all yet, but I was hoping for pointers on the
> most important bits to read for prepping patches submission.

Have you read this?
   http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded

>
> Also, in the layers list I'll be asking about some build issues that I
> don't see with a manual bitbake, that look like missing preqs on a build
> server, unless the layer should be requesting installation of host files
> somewhere.

Some tools required by ${HOSTTOOLS} are missing:
   cpio chrpath gawk diffstat makeinfo

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