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I've been giving things some thought, specifically why sstate doesn't get used more and why we have people requesting external toolchains. I'm guessing the issue is that people don't like how often sstate can change and the lack of an easy way to lock it down. Locking it down is actually quite easy so patch implements some basics of how you can do this (for example to a specific toolchain). With an addition like this to local.conf (or wherever): SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS = "\ gcc-cross:do_populate_sysroot:a8d91b35b98e1494957a2ddaf4598956 \ eglibc:do_populate_sysroot:13e8c68553dc61f9d67564f13b9b2d67 \ eglibc:do_packagedata:bfca0db1782c719d373f8636282596ee \ gcc-cross:do_packagedata:4b601ff4f67601395ee49c46701122f6 \ " the code at the end of the email will force the hashes to those values for the recipes mentioned. The system would then find and use those specific objects from the sstate cache instead of trying to build anything. Obviously this is a little simplistic, you might need to put an override against this to only apply those revisions for a specific architecture for example. You'd also probably want to put code in the sstate hash validation code to ensure it really did install these from sstate since if it didn't you'd want to abort the build. This patch also implements support to add to bitbake -S which dumps the locked sstate checksums for each task into a ready prepared include file locked-sigs.inc (currently placed into cwd). There is a function, bb.parse.siggen.dump_lockedsigs() which can be called to trigger the same functionality from task space. A warning is added to sstate.bbclass through a call back into the siggen class to warn if objects are not used from the locked cache. The SIGGEN_ENFORCE_LOCKEDSIGS variable controls whether this is just a warning or a fatal error. A script is provided to generate sstate directory from a locked-sigs file. (From OE-Core rev: 7e14784f2493a19c6bfe3ec3f05a5cf9797a2f22) (From OE-Core rev: 884d4fa3e77cf32836f14a113c11489076f4a84d) 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, patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams.
bitbake: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
meta-yocto: poky@yoctoproject.org
Most 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. 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.