[oe] Is Angstrom dead?

[Gary Thomas]

On 06/20/2010 02:23 PM, butters wrote:
> Were you ever able to resolve this? I'm quite annoyed because I'm
> compiling the gnome image and still getting this error.

Top-posting is evil...

> On 6/1/2010 5:21 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Sadly, the final image still does not build:
>>
>> | log_check: Matched keyword: [Cannot satisfy the following dependencies]
>> | Collected errors:
>> | * resolve_conffiles: Existing conffile
>> /local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/rootfs/beagleboard-linuxtag2010-demo-image/etc/device_table
>> is different from the conffile in the new package. The new conffile
>> will be placed at /local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/rootfs/b *
>> satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies
>> for angstrom-task-gnome:
>> | * encodings * encodings * encodings *
>> |
>> NOTE: package beagleboard-linuxtag2010-demo-image-1.0-r0: task
>> do_rootfs: Failed
>>
>> I don't understand this error well enough (believe me, I've
>> spent hours reading the various recipes and trying things)
>> to hazard a guess as to what this error means.

I only found a work around - the underlying problem remains.
You can fix it like this:
   % bitbake encodings -c clean
   % bitbake beagleboard-linuxtag2010-demo-image
       -or-
   % bitbake gnome-image

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