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

[Koen Kooi]

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On 17-01-10 17:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   given that (on my fedora 12 system, anyway), the gnome-games package
> has been unbuildable for weeks now, i finally threw in the towel,
> removed the reference to it from the beagleboard task, and can now
> build beagleboard-demo-image.
> 
>   that package was the final obstacle to getting a BB-demo-image
> build.  other packages that were failing -- e2fsprogs, mplayer --
> have recently been fixed, leaving gnome-games as the sole remaining
> cause of build grief.
> 
>   a suggestion -- until the issue with gnome-games is resolved, why
> not just remove its inclusion from the bb-demo-image task?  i'm being
> quite serious -- it's obviously not a critical package, and if it's
> the only thing keeping people from building and testing the OE dev
> branch for the beagleboard, take it out so folks can get back to
> testing.
> 
>   it seems counter-productive to allow a single games package to put
> the brakes on an entire build.

And I have yet to reproduce a single build failure with that recipe, and
I build beagleboard-demo-image daily.

It seems counter-productive remove everything that might fail for a
handfull of people. I remember busybox triggering an OOM on Philip's
build machine not too long ago :)

regards,

Koen
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