Eliminating dependency race-conditions (was Re: [PATCH] net-snmp: disable libnl use)

[Esben Haabendal <eha@dev.doredevelopment.dk>]

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 12:04 +0100, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> which occurred sometimes depending on build order (not in clean
> package only builds).

I would like to raise awareness of the underlying problem here.

The current dependency/staging model of OE basically has this feature
that a build can be influenced not only by it's own dependencies, but
also what has been build before it (or not).

I strongly believe that this has to be fixed on the architectural level,
and not just on a case-by-case level as is currently needed.

I haven't received much feedback on the preivous posting about the
per-recipe staging principle implemented in OE-lite, but I decided to
take this opportunity to re-iterate the fact that the OE-lite
implementation of staging and build dependencies eliminates this
problem.

I am still very much interested in discussing how to move this
technology from OE-lite to OE, but as it impacts all recipe metadata
(build dependencies has to be redefined), OE community at a large really
needs to value the benefits of solving this problem.

Best regards,
Esben