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python hard-codes the encoding of many locales; for instance, en_US is always assumed to be ISO-8859-1, regardless of the actual encoding of the en_US locale on the system. cf https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/7841e9b614eb/Lib/locale.py#l1049, getdefaultlocale(), etc. This code appears to date back to python 2.0. The source of this hard-coding is Xorg's locale.alias but is ultimately justified by glibc's SUPPORTED. This causes problems on OE, because any locale lacking an explicit encoding suffix (e.g. en_US) is UTF-8. It has been this way from the beginning (svn r1). That is not a bug, per se -- no specification prohibits this AFAIK. But it seems to be at odds with virtually every other glibc-based distribution in existence. To avoid needlessly aggravating hidden bugs that nobody else might hit, it makes sense to disable this behavior such that locales are named precisely as specified by SUPPORTED. I suppose that reasonable minds may disagree on whether or not the current behavior is prudent; at the very least, this is likely to break IMAGE_LINGUAS settings. So let's create a new distro variable LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT to allow either behavior. Set it to 0 and all your locales get named exactly like they are in SUPPORTED. Leave it at 1 to preserve current OE locale naming conventions. (From OE-Core rev: fcde0c43f7b57ec6f8201226ad98e6e46708d288) Signed-off-by: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Poky
Poky is an integration of various components to form a complete prepackaged build system and development environment. It features support for building customised embedded device style images. There are reference demo images featuring a X11/Matchbox/GTK themed UI called Sato. The system supports cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a standalone toolchain and SDK with IDE integration.
Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports is available in README.hardware. Further hardware support can easily be added in the form of layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way.
As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation and various sources of information e.g. for the hardware support. Poky is in turn a component of the Yocto Project.
The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a reference manual which can be found at: http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
OpenEmbedded-Core is a layer containing the core metadata for current versions of OpenEmbedded. It is distro-less (can build a functional image with DISTRO = "nodistro") and contains only emulated machine support.
For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website: http://www.openembedded.org/
Where to Send Patches
As Poky is an integration repository (built using a tool called combo-layer), patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams:
bitbake: Git repository: http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/ Mailing list: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
documentation: Git repository: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/ Mailing list: yocto@yoctoproject.org
meta-yocto(-bsp): Git repository: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto(-bsp) Mailing list: poky@yoctoproject.org
Everything else should be sent to the OpenEmbedded Core mailing list. If in doubt, check the oe-core git repository for the content you intend to modify. Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current oe-core git repository.
Git repository: http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/
Mailing list: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Note: The scripts directory should be treated with extra care as it is a mix of oe-core and poky-specific files.