[poky] [PATCH 1/1] conf/distro/poky.conf: set SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Matthew,

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 16:41:42 McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Specify a list of tested distributions, based on those tested prior
> > to the Yocto Project 1.1 release as recorded on the wiki.
> 
> What are the specific qualifications to make this list? I have run on
> CentOS 5.X in addition to ones on this list.

Well, there are two aspects:

1) We need the concrete information on what was tested; we've been collecting 
this on the following wiki page:

   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Distribution_Support

So, I'm not the person that sets policy on this (I'm not sure we have a policy 
yet) but thinking off the top of my head, ideally a Poky build of core-image-
sato should run "out of the box" (after installation of necessary packages, 
that is) with no hacks, although if we are able to document any necessary 
changes clearly I suspect even that shouldn't be an issue.

2) More practically we need to know what the ID string is for the distro. The 
code in sanity.bbclass looks at /etc/redhat-release, /etc/SuSE-release, 
/etc/lsb-release etc. to determine this.

FWIW I agree that CentOS should be on the list but I do not have a system 
running it to test, and I was missing the above information when I put 
together the patch. If you're confident that it works well for builds and can 
help with the above then I'm sure we can add it.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre