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

[Darren Hart]

On 09/16/2011 05:38 AM, chinmaya hoshing 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. 

OK... why not just use a common download directory? From what you've
described your just trying to speed up the build on a single build system.

--
Darren

> 
> 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 <http://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.
> 
> Regards
> C Hoshing
> 
> 
> 
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel