From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [66.111.4.27] (helo=out3.smtp.messagingengine.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsxBF-0006AY-FW for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:12:39 +0200 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40568181DA8 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:12:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web6.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.215]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:12:07 -0400 Received: by web6.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 232AD34AA0; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:12:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1224756727.28423.1280823321@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: LFQcqpmYuaWaWGOxfu7+jQfgPzSocYrrGIxMPvL9CFqc 1224756727 From: "Eliyahu Skoczylas" To: "Developers@OE.net" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface References: <200810191847.04533.mickey@vanille-media.de> <1224438415.4235.266.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> <4900464A.9090009@kernelconcepts.de> In-Reply-To: <4900464A.9090009@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:12:07 +0200 Subject: Re: busybox recipe isappearances X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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, 23 Oct 2008 10:12:44 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:39:22 +0200, "Florian Boor" said: > Hi, > > Phil Blundell schrieb: > > It's long been my view that we should just add newer ones and leave the > > old ones alone. There's really no reason to delete old recipes and, > > even if you check for PREFERRED_VERSIONs in the git tree, there is no > > real way to know who else might be relying on the version you are about > > to delete. > > I share this opinion. Since we do not know what people are doing with OE > there > is no way to find out if a recipe is used or not. In fact I can imagine a > lot of > situations in which you might want to use an older recipe. > > Why do we delete old recipes? We do not do this with old software > releases. I think that a simple policy of retaining, say, the latest 3 or 4 recipes for the current version of a package, and the last 2 for the 2 earlier software versions, might make people's lives easier and also not "clutter up" the directories with dozens of out-of-date / non-working versions. It shouldn't be hard to automate a policy like that, either. - Eliyahu -- Eliyahu Skoczylas +972 (54) 214-1505 If bounces, please use , instead.