[oe] I've downloaded oe

[Klaus Schwarzkopf]

Am 24.11.2010 10:18, schrieb Frans Meulenbroeks:
> 2010/11/24 Martin Jansa<martin.jansa at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:52:41AM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>> What about moving all recipes that do not fetch and also did not fetch
>>> during Martins test from last march/april to a directory non-fetching
>>> or so?
>>
>> But those recipes were only those where I wasn't able to find the source
>> at all (even with google help and couple of popular premirrors). Any
>> origin for source was fine for me, because I was only interested in
>> checksum check.
>>
>>> Apparently these are non fetchable for a long time, with no one
>>> apparently building them or having an interest to fix them.
>>
>> More likely those who were building those before are still building
>> OK, because they had it in theirs downloads dir. (but the second part is
>> right :/).
>>
>>> My proposal would be to do that before the release is made, thereby
>>> improving the % of the recipes that build.
>>
>> We can improve it also by putting those missing upstream files to
>> sources.openembedded.org and use it as premirror. But first we hav to
>> find someone who still have it in downloads dir :/ (I don't).
>>
>> Removing recipes would need to remove those also from tasks/images and
>> in the end release images could miss some important functionaly in worst
>> case.
>
> I think most of the non fetching recipes would fall into one of these
> categories:
> - recipes that are very specific and are not part of a task or image
> - recipes that are older versions and that are not used/build
>
> Wrt the remark on missing important functionality:
> For a user with a clean slate, the functionality is already missing as
> the task/image cannot be build from scratch.
>
> It might be a good idea to do a test trying to build all images for
> one distro/machine and see what comes out.
> Start with a clean system (empty downloads dir, empty TMPDIR, no
> pstaged files etc).
> Then bitbake all images. By doing it subsequently without cleaning
> TMPDIR inbetween it'll become clear which images do build from scratch
> and which don't.
>
> Is someone able/willing to do this test and report the result (suggest
> using distro minimal or angstrom or probably shr and machine angstrom)
>
> Frans


Is it usefull to have an image with all/most recipes? This image can be 
used for testing the recipes (fetch, compile) for several machines.

At the moment, i try to build all images with the dm355-evm machine.


Greetings Klaus