[Angstrom-devel] Opie in Angstrom

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Paul,


      I wanted to ask you about this myself, but release load kept
pushing this further. I'm glad you raised this yourself.

Sunday, December 30, 2007, 2:53:10 PM, you wrote:

> Hi guys,

> I've been looking at some of the things that might be necessary to get Opie
> building nicely in Angstrom. Yesterday I was able to build a working image
> for my h2200 from the stable branch (after applying the .desktop QA warning
> patch). The base distribution works very well, thanks to everyone for their
> hard work!

> Koen, regarding your library compatibility comment [1], as far as I can see
> (and correct me if I am wrong) there should be no issue here at the moment
> since none of the applications that require those libs (SDL games in the case
> of libsdl, opie-mediaplayer2 in the case of libxine) are built as part of the
> standard opie-image, and we can leave those packages unbuilt until such time
> that the compatibility issues are solved.

  I share the same opinion.

> Some other more immediate issues remain however:

> 1) At the moment one has to source 
> conf/distro/include/preferred-opie-versions-1.2.3.inc in local.conf. The
> autobuilder of course does not allow for this, so this would have to be added
> to angstrom-XXXX.conf or somewhere else more appropriate. Comments?

  Yes, I guess such patch can be RFCed to be applied to .dev and later
backported to stable.

> 2) There are a couple of fairly important bugs that have already been filed in
> the bugtracker but as yet have not been reviewed:

> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3154

  Committed.

> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2875

  I guess it's not the case when something should be done about
QPEApplication::qpeDir(), right? Will commit later.

> Would now be an appropriate time for me to apply to become an Opie maintainer
> in OE?

  We already discussed this I believe - any "today" is better than
"tomorrow" IMHO ;-). I remember you sent the key already? Can you
login? If no, please ping coreteam list.

  Otherwise, I'd like to invite to take release management
responsibilities for this and make a plan. I'd be glad to help, but
holidays are being, I'm soon will be out of this hyperactivity period
(as usual, I'm trying to do as much as possible when I can, well
anticipating that such time won't last long), and I don't feel like lead
on this. For a week or so I'll still be around with good inet
connection, and can help with image building/uploading (I don't think
it's practical/realistical to use Angstrom autobuild server for this
for this).

> Thanks, and best of the season to all.
> - Paul

> [1] 
> http://projects.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-devel/2007-December/001063.html


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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com