From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [209.242.20.70] (helo=green.dls.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HwGCK-0003bd-MK for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:30:37 +0200 Received: from twilight (gw.mwester.net [209.242.5.110]) by green.dls.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90800411972 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 06:28:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <044101c7a8f6$bcf43290$6e01a8c0@twilight> From: "Mike \(mwester\)" To: References: <03ec01c7a8bc$95a2f030$6e01a8c0@twilight> <200706070839.52842.openembedded@hrw.one.pl> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 06:26:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 Subject: Re: Need advice on changing kernel.bbclass X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:30:41 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcin Juszkiewicz" To: Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:39 AM Subject: Re: [oe] Need advice on changing kernel.bbclass > > RPROVIDES_kernel-2.4.22-xfs = "kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs" should solve your > problem. I've made the change, and the build is starting... but I'm not sure about this. This will instruct ipkg that the package "kernel-2.4.22-xfs" will satisify the dependency for "kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs", right? That's not the problem I've faced with right now; I don't need to generate extra information for the kernel-*.ipk --- that won't help the hundreds and hundreds of devices already installed. I need instead to alter the information in the generated kernel-module-*.ipk files so that they do not have a dependency on kernel-2.4.22-xfs (as the installed devices do not, according to the old packaging, have that dependency satisfied -- instead they feature only kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs). Or do I misunderstand the RPROVIDES/RDEPENDS mechanism? > Change was in kernel*.bbclass and it was discussed on this list - > thread "[oe] RFC: Kernel image packaging" from 14 March this year. I'll dig up that thread for review. Clearly this is not a high-priority problem, if it's taken almost 3 months for this issue to surface since this change to kernel.bbclass was made -- clearly adding kernel modules to the feeds for the older releases is not a common things any more. But there is a (reasonable) request in the queue, so I'd like to find a way to get those modules built (that doesn't require the user to "upgrade" their installation entirely, especially since I have no intention at this time of building a new release for them to upgrade to!) Thanks! Mike (mwester)