[oe] QA Goals for OpenEmbedded

[Graeme Gregory]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:50:36AM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/1/7 Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk>:
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:09:10PM +0100, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> >> allergic to COMPATIBLE_MACHINE for no particular reason).  Bitbake can't
> >> do versioned depends and so we can't say that $bb2-$version does not
> >> compile with gcc less than 3.4.x, for example.  Those are just two
> >> examples.  XorA "solved" this in a hackish way with angsstrom.bbclass.
> >>
> > No he didnt and no its not a hack. Its a blacklist of packages that for
> > various reasons Angstrom NEVER wants built.
> 
> Should we have such a blacklist per machine?
> My sheevaplug rungs angstrom, but as it has no display it has no need
> for an X server, nor for ide or pci or sata tools.
> 
It follows the standard overide rules (or should do) so you should
be able to blacklist per machine.

Of course you chose a bad example as I know quite a few people are using
the sheeva with usb displaylink adapters.

Graeme