[oe] OpenEmbedded Layer Index autobuild errors

[cshored at cshore.thecshore.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: March 20, 2017 9:28 PM
> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> Cc: Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09 at gmail.com>; Gary Thomas
> <gary at mlbassoc.com>; Daniel Dickinson <cshored at cshore.thecshore.com>
> Subject: Re: [oe] OpenEmbedded Layer Index autobuild errors
> 
> On Monday, 20 March 2017 11:46:06 AM NZDT Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Monday, 20 March 2017 11:33:16 AM NZDT Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > On Monday, 20 March 2017 10:51:46 AM NZDT Max Krummenacher
> wrote:
> > > > Am Sonntag, den 19.03.2017, 12:04 -0400 schrieb Daniel Dickinson:
> > > > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:39:38 +0100
> > > > >
> > > > > Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > With that change all tools which must be installed on the
> > > > > > > host need to be present, even if in your use case some of
> > > > > > > them might not be used. Did you install the prerequisites?
> > > > > > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2.1/ref-manual/ref-manual
> > > > > > > .html#
> > > > > > > re
> > > > > > > qu
> > > > > > > ired-packages-for-the-ho st-dev elopment-system
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The real point is that it's not his host - it's the [remote]
> > > > > > autobuilder tool for OpenEmbedded (IIRC)
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, thank you.  I'm not sure it's a full autobuilder or just
> > > > > parses recipes for generating the web pages, but either way it's
> > > > > not my host, it's an openembedded.org host.  Apparently I'm not
> > > > > good at explaining that...
> > > >
> > > > My bad, sorry.
> > > >
> > > > And it looks like the host fails to update any of the layers, e.g.
> > > > also
> > > > openembedded-core:
> > > > https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/layerupdate/323749/
> > > > Adding Paul, as he maybe knows how to get those tools onto the
> server.
> > >
> > > Ah yes - I think I may just take the cheap way out and clear
> > > HOSTTOOLS when parsing in the index - we're not doing any actual
> > > building, after all, so we're not going to be calling any of these
> > > tools).
> >
> > Well, perhaps I spoke too soon. We call gcc to check its version just
> > when parsing, I suspect there may be others, so maybe the safest thing
> > is to just install these tools. Things are rarely as simple as they
first appear...
> 
> FYI I have merged a patch for this, just waiting for it to be applied in
the OE
> infrastructure now.

Thank you; it's  been working since about March 28.  Now to prepare an
announcement / RFC message.

Regards,

Daniel