[oe] [PATCH 00/31] Numerous patches to resolve yocto-compat-layer

Wed Sep 6 23:49:32 UTC 2017

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> Current version of these patches, the v2 of 13/31 and the dropping of 29 and 31
> has been pushed to:
>
> git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded-contrib
> mgh/yp-compat/master-next
>

Are these made on top of master-next ?
if not it would be easier to integrate if they were rebased on top of
master-next

> --Mark
>
> On 9/6/17 2:22 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> This patch set attempts to address the 'yocto-compat-layer.py' failures.
>>
>> Many of the patches seem like obvious fixes or changes to me.. however some
>> of them are clearly dubious.
>>
>> I would not suggestion treating this as a single take them all or take none,
>> but as individual changes.. (a few of them may require prior changes...)
>>
>> Besides the standard git summary (below), I have attempted to summaries the
>> individual patches here to help with review:
>>
>> [01/31] iproute2: Move tipc enablement to oe-core
>> [02/31] libml: Move to oe-core
>> - I will be sending up a corresponding patch to oe-core for these.  See the
>> other email ( iproute2: Move tipc enablement to oe-core ) for a description
>> of why this is necessary.
>>
>> [03/31] openipmi: Move to meta-networking requires net-snmp
>> - openipmi in meta-oe requires net-snmp, but meta-oe doesn't depend on
>> meta-networking.  Easiest resolution was to move it.
>>
>> [04/31] glmark2: Set required distro features to opengl
>> - Should be one of the 'obvious' fixes
>>
>> [05/31] openlmi-tools: Only build if the necessary python
>> - This is one of the dubious patches.  I could not figure out an appropriate
>> place to 'move' this to that requires meta-python -- as the item itself does
>> not appear to be appriopriate to put into meta-python.
>>
>> [06/31] xorg-drivers: Add opengl distro flag requirement to ati
>> [07/31] boinc-client: Add distro flag, requires opengl
>> - Another set of the 'obvious' fixes
>>
>> [08/31] networkmanager-openvpn: requires openvpn from meta-networking
>> - requires openvpn from meta-networking, but meta-oe doesn't depend on
>> meta-networking.  Easiest resolution was to move it.
>>
>> [09/31] telepathy-python: Move to meta-python, requires python-dbus
>> - This seems like a reasonable move to meta-python
>>
>> [10/31] networkmanager: Move to meta-networking, requires dnsmasq
>> - This moves the rest of networkmanager to meta-networking
>>
>> [11/31] python-ldap: Move to meta-networking, requires cyrus-sasl
>> - I originally was going to move to meta-python, but that doesn't depend on
>> meta-networking... so move it there instead
>>
>> [12/31] python-networkmanager: Move to networking, requires networkmanager
>> - Due to the prior moves, move this as well to meta-networking
>>
>> [13/31] corosync: Requires net-snmp from meta-networking
>> - Again move to meta-networking due to dep
>>
>> [14/31] pywbem: Requires python-m2crypto-native (and others)
>> - This is one I'm not sure if it's the right thing or not.. but it does
>> require meta-python.. so move it.
>>
>> [15/31] dlm: requires corosync, from meta-networking
>> - Again move to meta-networking due to prior move
>>
>> [16/31] open-vm-tools: only build if meta-networking and meta-filesystems
>> - open-vm-tools requires libdnet (meta-networking) and fuse (meta-filesystem)
>> I think this is a dubious way to 'fix' the issue, but I really couldn't think
>> of a better way.
>>
>> [17/31] miniupnpd: Move to meta-networking, requires libnetfilter-conntrack
>> - Move to meta-networking due to dependency...
>>
>> [18/31] enable_gnome.conf: Move the AVAHI_GTK setting
>> - The yp-compat script does not allow a layer to modify the system wide
>> configuration (including modifying other recipe behavior).  The AVHAI_GTK
>> changes the behavior of that recipe, which is detected by the script.  So
>> I choose to move this to a configuration file that will need to be required
>> by the user IF they want avahi to use GTK.  I'm not happy with this, but I
>> don't see any other way to meet the requirements.
>>
>> [19/31] glade3: Move PACKAGECONFIG setting to enable_gnome.conf
>> - Similar to the above, but with PACKAGECONFIG this time.
>>
>> [20/31] libart-lgpg: Obsolete, replaced by version in oe-core
>> - OE core already has this version, remove it.
>>
>> [21/31] pinpoint: Add dependency on opengl for cogl
>> - Add the required distro flag...
>>
>> [22/31] vim: Remove xfce vim bbappend
>> - This breaks the same rule as 18 and 19.  I didn't see a way to 'fix it',
>> so I just removed the change.
>>
>> [23/31] layer.conf: Add meta-networking for the networkmanager
>> - add meta-networking as a dependency to meta-gnome for networkmanager
>> this is due to the move above
>>
>> [24/31] meta-xfce: depend on meta-multimedia
>> - There was a duplicate openembedded-layer entry, but I think it was
>> supposed to be for meta-multimedia.  This resolves a bunch of dependency
>> errors.
>>
>> [25/31] mpv: Requires ffmpeg which has a LICENSE_FLAGS =
>> [26/31] recipes-multimedia: Add LICENSE_FLAGS
>> [27/31] recipes-multimedia: Add LICENSE_FLAGS
>> - Above items all get LICENSE_FLAGS added to match their dependencies.  This
>> resolves a dependency issue where the required item(s) are not avaialable.
>>
>> [28/31] libmtp: remove 'mtp-tools' from PACKAGES
>> - This is a real bug in mtp-tools, and needs to be fixed.
>>
>> [29/31] xfce4-mixer: Remove, gstreamer-0.10 is obsolete
>> - There is no 'fix' for xfce4-mixer using gstreamer-0.10, so remove it...
>>
>> [30/31] florence: update 0.6.3
>> - Use Andreas Muller's patch from Oct 2016 to git rid of the gstreamer-0.10
>> dependency.  Resolve the issue with requiring gtk+3.
>>
>> [31/31] gstreamer-0.10: Remove as all users are gone and it is
>> - Remove gstreamer-0.10 as all of the users are now gone.  (This resolves
>> various preferred provider issues I observed..)
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