[poky] [oe] [OE-core] Piglit in Poky

[Martin Jansa]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 08:09:30PM -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 12/23/2013 01:01 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We'd like to integrate Piglit (an OpenGL test suite) into Poky so that
> > we can run automated QA on the GL stack.  Piglit is currently residing
> > in meta-oe, but as Poky is a self-contained project we can't just add
> > meta-oe to it:  apart from the size of meta-oe, we can't ensure
> > stability if meta-oe makes incompatible changes that affect Poky.
> > 
> > Piglit isn't a stand-alone package, there are the dependencies of
> > waffle, python-mako and python-numpy to consider too.  There are two
> > possibilities I can see:
> > 
> > 1) Move piglit and deps to oe-core.  Piglit is for QA purposes only
> > and pushes the boundaries of "core platform".  In a sense this is a
> > repeat of the discussion we had with Midori...  does oe-core contain
> > everything needed to sufficiently exercise the core components it
> > ships or not?
> 
> I expect Richard will push back on this, and I would support him here.
> 
> > 
> > 2) Add piglit and deps to meta-yocto.  Probably a new layer called
> > meta-yocto-qa (or similar) because the Yocto Compatible guidelines
> > forbid mixing distribution policy and recipes.  We'd need to sync
> > meta-yocto-qa with the pieces of meta-oe that we want somehow, but
> > that's our problem.
> 
> So meta-yocto is right out. I'm a user of numpy, and I certainly do not
> want to include something called meta-yocto-qa just to pick up numpy.
> 
> So this presents a quandry. Moving numpy to a special layer to support a
> specific recipe is just not the right thing to do. Conceivably, we could
> create a layer for the bits of meta-oe that are python related, but I am
> not sure that solves your entire problem.
> 
> I certainly do not want to see one recipe appear in two layers. That is
> a recipe for trouble.
> 
> Long term, we need to make the layer model work for the entire project
> and get over the reluctance to use other peoples layers.

Agreed, meta-python in meta-oe repository sounds a lot better than
having the same recipe in 2 layers.

> > Thoughts and opinions welcome over Christmas, otherwise I'll toss a coin. :)
> > 
> > Ross
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