[oe] I've downloaded oe

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/11/25 Klaus Schwarzkopf <schwarzkopf at sensortherm.de>:
> 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.

This functionality exists:

do a
bitbake world
or if you only want to fetch:
bitbake -c fetchall world

Enjoy, Frans
>
> At the moment, i try to build all images with the dm355-evm machine.
>
>
> Greetings Klaus
>
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