[oe] Angstrom opkg feed config

Steffen Sledz sledz at dresearch.de
Thu Mar 11 15:58:34 UTC 2010


Koen Kooi wrote:
>> At the moment recipes/angstrom/angstrom-feed-configs.bb creates
>> also config file for ${MACHINE_ARCH} specific packages. But at
>> least for the machine arch 'hipox' (i'm not sure for other ones)
>> the given URI does not exist. This results in an error when
>> calling 'opkg update':
> 
>> Collected errors:
>>  * Failed to download http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/unstable/ipk/glibc/armv5te/machine/hipox/Packages.gz, error 1
> 
>> Does this directory intentionally not exist?
> 
>> Wouldn't it be better to create an empty Packages.gz if there
>> are no machine arch specific packages?
> 
> Feel free to volunteer to support this machine in angstrom, ask on the
> angstrom devel mailinglist about it.

I'm not sure if i have the time to handle this. Sorry.

But as mentioned before, wouldn't it be a good idea to create an
empty Packages.gz for all OE known machine types which are not
officially supported by Angstrom just to avoid this error. That
sounds easy to realize.

Steffen





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