Re: [ptxdist] Yocto

[Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org>]

Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, 22:12:15 CEST schrieb Robert Schwebel:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 08:42:26PM +0200, Tim Sander wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 10. September 2017 21:16:52 CEST Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 08:36:13PM +0200, Tim Sander wrote:
> > > > I really would like to use ptxdist for my next private project where i
> > > > would like to try ROS.
> > > 
> > > ROS1 or ROS2?
> > 
> > I would like to have something not to dated. The website lists Lunar or
> > Kinetic Kame as versions...
> 
> That's all ROS1. ROS2 is a complete redesign.
You are right, but i am wetting my toes... and the ros.org website does not
mention ros2. Do you think ros2 is already usable?

> > > > As far as i see, its already packaged for OpenEmbedded or Angstrom.
> > > 
> > > I only know of old ROS packages made by the BMW folks, but this is
> > > neither current versions of ROS, nor ROS2. Do you know of newer code?
> > 
> > This seems to be the repository for kinetic kame:
> > https://github.com/bulwahn/meta-ros/tree/kinetic-experimental
> 
> Lunar Loggerhead is the current release, right?
Yes and kinetic is kind of a stable release, whatever that means. 
> > > > But as it has its own build tools and lots of python module
> > > > dependencies it might be to much to get all this stuff build with
> > > > ptxdist.
> > > 
> > > We started with ptxdist packaging for ROS2 two techweeks ago, but it is
> > > a slow process if you have only one week per year. If someone would be
> > > interested commercially, it would probably be possible to get a solution
> > > faster, bug that didn't happen so far.
> > 
> > Well its my private tinkering project...
> > Do you have something i can build upon. I think one hurdle would be the
> > custom build system?
> 
> Of course, that's the main issue. Sorry, nothing finished yet...
I am happy with anything borken. Its better than nothing...

> > > > As for the speed i would say that one of my biggest gripes with
> > > > ptxdist is
> > > > that -je16 -ji16 builds fail for me. And with that many virtual cores
> > > > available its realy a pitty :-(.
> > > 
> > > Do you have logfiles for the fails? We are doing a lot of test builds
> > > here, and if something breaks, we would like to know.
> > 
> > Strange, i think if i just do a build of DistroKit i can observe that make
> > just stops. I can restart it so a
> > for i in `seq 1 10`; do ptxdist -je16 -ji16 go; done;
> > Works faster than a normal build, so the failure is that not all packages
> > are getting build?
> 
> Hmm, we'll have a look.
That would be really nice :-)

Tim


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