On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:44 AM, David Gilbert david.gilbert@linaro.org wrote:
On 20 January 2011 18:30, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
Hey
As a followup to IRC conversations around backports, releases and QA today, I'd like to hear what others think of our Linaro PPAs. I'll start with some history and proposals:
To my mind the important constraint is that there should be some relatively easy thing that we can say to someone 'and this is how you get a stable Linaro'; and by that I mean the whole thing - a set of tools that build and run everything else including a kernel and preferably debug it.
By 'easy' I mean relatively simple, but critically pretty difficult to do wrong or miss a step.
There should be a 'stable' version of the entire set - i.e. we're not asking someone else to pick a particular kernel/tools/etc - so that it's easy for people to know what they should get and it 'should just work'. And it should stay working up until at least the next release.
Agreed. I'd like an easy way of getting pre-built binaries of all the stable enough Linaro outputs. On the toolchain side this would include the latest monthly releases of Linaro GCC, GDB, and QEMU in native and cross versions as appropriate. A single PPA for the whole of Linaro would be nice.
-- Michael