[oe] RFC: new stable release

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:06:19PM +0000, Shane Dixon wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 09:35 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'd like to add Ubuntu 8.10.  Further, for each of these reference host
> > configurations we need to say what's installed, preferably by meta
> > packages (in Ubuntu's case, say ubuntu-minimal + ubuntu-standard) and
> > specific packages ('gcc', 'g++', etc..).  And I too can help with the
> > env.  FWIW, a chroot should be good enough for this..
> > 
> 
> 8.04 might be a better target for a "reference machine" because it's an
> LTS release (although I personally use 8.10).  I think that the goal
> should be solid support for the longest (within reason of course) amount
> of time.  If I intend to write a document for a vendor explaining how to
> use OE as a build environment for their code, the intent should be that
> I don't have to re-write it again and again over the course of the next
> year (Ubuntu releases every 6 months).  

8.04 works for me, really.  The same set of packages actually works for
me on 7.10/8.04/8.10, and I hope 9.04 :)

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Tom Rini