Bug 6400 - 1.6 migration notes: no information about ptest
Summary: 1.6 migration notes: no information about ptest
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Reference
Classification: Documentation
Component: handbook (show other bugs)
Version: 1.6
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Low minor
Target Milestone: 1.6.1
Assignee: Scott Rifenbark
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Whiteboard: 16 June 2014: RESOLVED
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Reported: 2014-06-04 16:07 UTC by Volker
Modified: 2014-06-16 04:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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OS type for building Yocto: ---
Type of Regression: ---
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Documentation change: Done (doc changes complete)


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Description Volker 2014-06-04 16:07:53 UTC
Switching from 1.5.1 to 1.6 I was reading through "5.4. Moving to the Yocto Project 1.6 Release" in the reference manual and it is a great help.

One thing that seems to be missing here is the note that ptests are automatically build now by default. As I learned they are just build but not installed by default.

The reason why I stumbled through it was that the package gnome-desktop-testing was build -- on a non-x11 / headless yocto distro.



A more minor flaw I stumbled in 1.5.1 update section was in "5.3.2. atom-pc Board Support Package (BSP)". Reading through it it gave me the impression that Atom CPUs are 32bit -- yet I know that there are 64bit Atoms (and we use the x86-64 build for the 64bit Atom):

Maybe changing the following sentence from
  "Additionally, a genericx86-64 BSP has been added for 64-bit systems." could 
to
  "Additionally, a genericx86-64 BSP has been added for 64-bit Atom systems."
would be helpful for other users.
Comment 1 Scott Rifenbark 2014-06-13 04:02:56 UTC
Hi,

I have updated the manual in both suggested spots.  Because the issue was found in the "current" set of docs, which is 1.6, I made and published the change in several areas based on the current roadmap of Yocto Project releases.

You can see the fixes here:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#migration-1.6-package-test-ptest

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#migration-1.5-atom-pc-bsp

These changes will also show up in the "latest" set of manuals, which are under development as well as any future point releases for YP 1.6.

Please look over the changes and if there are no issues I will mark the bug RESOLVED.

Scott
Comment 2 Volker 2014-06-14 17:59:16 UTC
I think these changes will help other users. Thanks. :)
Comment 3 Scott Rifenbark 2014-06-16 04:41:19 UTC
Hi, 

I am marking the issue as RESOLVED and setting the documentation flag to "Done".

Thanks,
Scott