[oe] beagleboard-demo-image, and the evil that is "gnome-games"

[Paul Menzel]

Am Sonntag, den 17.01.2010, 12:06 -0500 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:47:06AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   it seems counter-productive to allow a single games package to put
> > > the brakes on an entire build.
> >
> > Maybe you want to build with -k?
> >
> > If there is some build problem in games package, then it should be
> > fixed, not silenced by whole task removal.
> 
>   i've reported the breakage related to gnome-games before:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg02124.html
> 
> note in that posting that philip balister appears to confirm the
> problem, and there's a reference to someone else who is working with
> an update that might solve the problem.
> 
>   that was a *month* ago, and things are still broken.  if there's a
> fix, then it should be applied.  if there isn't, then the reference to
> gnome-games should be removed.  allowing a single broken package
> that's been broken for over a month to be the single obstacle to a
> successful build would seem to be entirely counter-productive.

As written, I think you should enter this in the bugtracker where it
will not get forgotten. You can also publish your diff to make it easier
for others.

And lastly people can always use the online rootfs builder [1]. 


[1] http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/online-rootfs-builder-moved-ångström-domain
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