[oe] OE stable, testing, dev (was Re: What to do about the poor bitbake Quality Control?)

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Martyn Welch <martyn.welch at ge.com> wrote:
>> On 17/08/10 16:02, Cliff Brake wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it would be very useful to have a "stable" branch that is only
>>> synchronised with dev when X number of targets build from a clean
>>> build.  It seems like this would be high value, with little effort.
>>> Of course there will be corner things that break, but at least a new
>>> beagleboard user can check out something and have reasonable
>>> confidence that it will build images.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have suggestions for the branch name and a reasonable
>>> subset of machines and build targets?  Perhaps someone is already
>>> running these clean builds?  At one point we had a machine at OSUOSL
>>> dedicated to this purpose, but no one ever set it up.
>>>
>>
>> So something like Debian's stable, testing and unstable[1]?
>
> That sounds good to me -- so how about org.openembedded.dev and
> org.openembedded.testing branches?


simply 'testing' is good (we were to rename org.openembedded.dev to master)

>
> I'll plan to start doing a clean build of dev every Monday for the
> Beagleboard, and then merge to testing once it builds.  Initial
> targets:
>
> Angstrom Distro
> beagleboard/beagleboard-linuxtag2010-demo-image
> x86/minimal-image
>

All qemu targets build and run too. So adding some of (qemuarm
qemumips qemumipsel qemuppc qemux86
qemush4) will be good too.



> My workstation runs a 64-bit OS, so that is probably worst case
> (compared to i686).
>
> Getting started
> (http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_started) points to a
> tarball for bitbake 1.8.18.  Is this still the recommended
> version/mechanism for new users?  I much prefer simply pulling bitbake
> from git.

yes git would be better. You can also checkout 1.10 branch and use it if needed.

>
> Thanks,
> Cliff
>
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