[poky] Getting error in linux-yocto kernel during build.

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:38 AM, chinmaya hoshing <cahoshing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
> I am building poky-build minimal live image for fishriver machine on 64 bit
> host machine.
> As I am having limited internet band-width, so I have identified all the
> dependent packages and setup a Apache server on my local system so that I
> can redirect the SRC_URI of all the packages to my local server.
> I have changed the related recipes to build  minimal live image, and modify
> bitbake.conf to add LOCAL_MIRROR="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/packages" , in side
> packages I have tars which  was present "build/download" folder.
> While building linux-yocto, fetch and unpack was done but during kernel
> checkout whatever git commits I have done previously in poky source were
> flashed out (lost),  also the only recipe remains in  meta/recipe-kernel/ is
> linux .
>
> Following are the changes made in
> meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_git.bb
> #SRCREV_FORMAT = "meta_machine"
> SRC_URI = "${LOCAL_MIRROR}/linux-yocto-3.0-3.0.tar.bz2"
>  // This tar file I took from
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/linux-yocto-3.0/snapshot/linux-yocto-3.0-3.0.tar.bz2
> PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}"
> In file meta-intel/meta-fishriver/conf/machine/fishriver.conf I modified
> PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto = "3.0"                (which  was
> PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto = "3.0+git%" )
>
> Can any one help me to find the solution that if I had to pull linux kernel
> source from tar file or such and not from git repository. What things I have
> to do.

The linux-yocto recipes are designed from the ground up to work on a git
based repository, and there's really no way to get around that fact (and no
plans to make any changes in this area).

So why not setup a git server, or put a local git repository on your build
machine and reference that ?

Bruce

> Regards
> C Hoshing
>
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