From: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Kernel image packaging
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:31:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259297402.20070314223113@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173869049.5834.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Hello Richard,
Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 12:44:08 PM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> The kernel packaging has given various people concern for a while. The
> problem is some devices don't want a kernel binary installed into the
> root filesystem. We can do this at the moment but the kernel doesn't end
> up packaged and we would like those packages to be available even if
> they're not installed by default on a given device.
Thanks for going for this issue!
[]
> For a device that doesn't want the kernel in the rootfs, it would simply
> set:
> RDEPENDS_kernel-base = ""
> in the appropriate kernel file. Perhaps the definition below should be
> a ?= and the above could then be set in the machine.conf file.
> Does anyone see a nicer way to handle this or have an alternative?
I guess this is just the correct solution which handles this setting
where it should be, and doesn't compromise packaging.
> If nobody objects, this will probably get committed at the weekend.
Hope to see it soon!
> Cheers,
> Richard
[]
--
Best regards,
Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-14 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-14 10:44 RFC: Kernel image packaging Richard Purdie
2007-03-14 20:31 ` Paul Sokolovsky [this message]
2007-03-14 21:20 ` Hans Henry von Tresckow
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