[oe] install_linguas using public feed for locale package install?

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:15:02PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 13-05-10 11:57, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > Today I noticed that with every do_rootfs I see few downloads from my
> > webserver (where is DISTRO_FEED_URI pointing).
> > 
> > I guess it's because install_linguas from image.bbclass.
> > 
> > Is there some special reason why it's not used from deploy/ipk directly?
> 
> This code was done in narcissus first, which and then copied to OE. The
> difficulty here is that when this runs, the OE generated opkg.conf is
> already gone. You can make it use the deploy/ipk feeds if you do the
> install_lingua step earlier, or add a -f to point to a different config
> file location.

OK, I'll send patch.

> > it's not problem here, but if public feed is not in sync with deploy/ipk
> > it can be IMHO pretty bad (locale .ipk cannot be found or different version).
> 
> Well, it keeps me honest :) It makes me notice public and private feed
> discrepancies a lot faster. But I agree that requiring internet access
> during do_rootfs is a bad thing.

We sync after every build, but not between ie EFL upgrade and do_rootfs
of image, when EFL upgrade is built as part of image dependencies. So
we're also not so bad :).

> regards,

Regards,

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