[oe] What to do about the poor bitbake Quality Control?

[Gary Thomas]

On 08/14/2010 01:01 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/8/14 AJ ONeal<coolaj86 at gmail.com>:
>> This is about the 4th time that I've `rm -rf`-d everything and started from
>> scratch and never yet got a working `bitbake omap3-console-image`
>>
>> Every time I `git pull` it's a different set of problems. It's never the
>> same package twice, but they never all compile for the basic console image
>> anywhere from 4 to 20 hours in.
>>
>> Fortunately, I do have a machine that did build omap3-console-image a few
>> weeks ago at work. But I've never been able to get it on my machine at home
>> (same os) to start playing around with.
>>
>> What needs to happen in order for things to git checked that they work with
>> at least a few common meta-tasks before being pushed out?
>> And is there anything I can do to help? (Donate some machine time to run
>> tests, for example)
>>
>>
>> Obviously, we all have our day jobs and whatnot, but this is becoming really
>> frustrating for me and I'd like to see things improve.
>>
>
> If you are using dev head, you're living on the edge. If you can't
> stand that better use the stable branch.

The biggest problem (as discussed at great length already) is that the
distance from 'dev' to 'stable' can be measured in years :-(  'stable'
just isn't useful at all for "current" work...

> As far as there are issues:
> Either report them, or better fix them.
> (or as a workaround you could find the commit wthat broke it and
> report that and perhaps temporariy locally revert that commit if you
> cannot fix it).
>
> Having said that:
> I don't really see many issues. Maybe I'm building a different set of
> packages or for a different set of hw or for a different distro.

Turning a blind eye, I would say.  I (and others) have nearly 0%
success building any Angstrom image on an x86_64 based host.  I've tried
the latest Ubuntu and Fedora - neither works, both yield different failures.
At least I have i686 build hosts to fall back on, but there are issues there
as well.

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