Bug 545

Summary:	Improve SDK sysroot extensibility and workflow
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Joshua Lock - Disabled <josh>
Component:	devtools / tool chain	Assignee:	Chen Qi <Qi.Chen>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	bluelightning, jessica.zhang, ke.yu, kevin.tian, lianhao.lu, liezhi.yang, mark.hatle, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, Qi.Chen, richard.purdie, sgw, yi.zhao
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.7
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	5006

Description Joshua Lock - Disabled 2010-11-24 09:14:17 UTC

Currently we support installing extra target packages (and their headers) into an SDK sysroot to enable the developer to customise their SDK environment.

However the SDK only ships with opkg package manager support whereas we build RPM target packages by default.

I'd propose we need to spend some time thinking about the workflow for a developer extending their SDK and how best to support it then ensure that said workflow is well documented.

Comment 1 Scott Rifenbark 2011-02-24 05:23:08 UTC

This is a valid enhancement.  Workflow will be addressed in the "to-be-written" Yocto Project Development manual.  This manual is where this topic should be addressed.  This enhancement will be implemented post 1.0.

Comment 2 Jessica 2012-05-02 20:13:45 UTC

Hi Lianhao,

This is something related to package feed which I though at one point you looked into.  So have we provided Scott the needed info to document them?

Thanks,
Jessica

Comment 3 Scott Rifenbark 2012-05-02 21:58:10 UTC

I don't currently have information for this.  I will need to work with someone that is the Subject Matter Expert on this.  

Scott

Comment 4 Scott Rifenbark 2013-03-20 20:03:24 UTC

I am changing this to NEEDINFO as that is what I need.  I don't have any base information to address this issue yet.

Scott

Comment 5 Richard Purdie 2013-04-25 10:34:38 UTC

Jessica: Can you please either provide Scott with info, or find someone who can?

Comment 6 Chen Qi 2013-08-13 07:13:02 UTC

Hi Scott,

I see there are some related sections about SDK across the dev manual, ref manual and adt manual.

Could you please tell me what kind of information is still needed?

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

Comment 7 Paul Eggleton 2014-11-06 15:54:08 UTC

I'm marking this as obsolete - we have a plan to handle this as part of the developer workflow improvements (see bug 6662).