[poky] Poky doesn't play nice with meta-oe

[Paul Eggleton]

On Saturday 10 March 2012 08:31:50 Gary Thomas wrote:
> I wanted to do some experimenting with midori (a webkit based
> browser that is [arguably] better than web2) in my familiar Poky
> environment.
>...
> * Rebuild core-image-sato
>    Lots of packages get rebuilt, down to GCC which has been updated
>    to r27 from r22.  I thought the poky meta "core" was tracking meta-oe
>    and openembedded-core more closely than this.

I agree, this is not particularly desirable. We've discussed this in the OE 
TSC and the agreement was that the toolchain bits currently in the meta-oe 
layer itself will be moved out to a separate layer.

> Image will boot, but most things are broken, no X, no network, ...

That's not good :(

> It looks like the evil systemd has pervaded meta-oe (which IMO should
> be at least a DISTRO decision).

I agree, but there are others who think it should be switchable on a per-image 
basis. I don't think it's going to be long before that's impossible however.

> I guess the only way I'll be able to test this in Poky, if at all,
> will be to only import the midori recipes and its dependencies, which
> there seem to be many.

That's not an unreasonable approach for now. However we do really want to tidy 
up meta-oe such that it doesn't do surprising things when you enable it. 
Hopefully we will get a chance to make progress on this over the next few 
months.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre