[oe] [PATCH 2/2] omap4430-panda: fix u-boot

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/12/31 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
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> On 31-12-10 20:06, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> 2010/12/31 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
>> On 31-12-10 16:47, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>>>> The u-boot recipe for pandaboard is nonbuildable for a few
>>>>> months. Apparently this recipe is orphaned.
>>>>> I've made things buildable again by moving to the latest
>>>>> mainline u-boot (as suggested by Steve Sakoman a few monts
>>>>> ago). It builds fine, but is not tested on the actual
>>>>> hardware (as I do not have access to a board).
>>>>> Still I feel that a buildable recipe is better than using a
>>>>> recipe that does not even build.
>>
>> NAK, since it builds just fine and the result of the new recipe doesn't
>> work as good:
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>>> It does not build! See the log below.
>>> The recipe says:
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>>> SRCREV = "ccd0c67858c6e2807c695e2c8f545284cb871866"
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>>> PV = "2010.9+${PR}+git${SRCREV}"
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>>> SRC_URI = "git://www.sakoman.com/git/u-boot.git;branch=omap4-exp;protocol=git \
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>>> This SRCREV does not exist!
>>
>>> The only reason it works for you is because you use a mirror that has
>>> a snapshot of the recipe.
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> It's the standard angstrom source mirror from angstrom-mirrors.bbclass,
> which anyone can use if they want to.
>
>>> If you are concerned about this recipe the least you can do is to make
>>> sure that people can build it even if they do not have your mirror
>>> present.
>
> The configurations I'm concerned about use angstrom-mirrors.bbclass, I
> don't care about others. I can send you my rate card if you want to pay
> me to support crap like minimal.

Oh my, what are we polite again.
I can perfectly support myself, thank you.

We have a broken recipe and I feel it should be fixed.
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>>> (by either moving the recipe to a SRCREV that exists or by changing
>>> the SRC_URI to a location that *does* fetch).
>>> In its current form I consider this recipe as broken!
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> I only support angstrom for the machines I maintain, if other distros
> want to support panda, they are free to mirror the snapshot if they want to.
> There is no guarantee that any other SRCREV will keep existing for the
> lengths of time, but the angstrom source mirror will keep the snapshot
> for at least 3 years.

Then as a machine maintainer you are doing a lousy job.
A key idea of OE is that we support multiple targets and multiple distro's.

Frans