Re: [meta-swupd][PATCH] layer.conf: exclude libarchive (bsdtar) dependency from swupd-client

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 10:02 +0000, André Draszik wrote:
> From: André Draszik <adraszik@tycoint.com>
> 
> The swupd-client doesn't need to be rebuilt if libarchive
> changes, because swupd-client just invokes the command line
> utility bsdtar from the libarchive recipe, it doesn't link
> against libarchive.
> The bsdtar binary changing doesn't matter, as bsdtar's ABI
> (command line argument handling) wouldn't be changing.

This is about to change: 
https://github.com/clearlinux/swupd-client/issues/285 is being workedon, see 
https://github.com/clearlinux/swupd-client/pull/327

> Signed-off-by: André Draszik <adraszik@tycoint.com>
> ---
>  conf/layer.conf | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/conf/layer.conf b/conf/layer.conf
> index 50e7558..3af6992 100644
> --- a/conf/layer.conf
> +++ b/conf/layer.conf
> @@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ LAYERVERSION_meta-swupd = "1"
>  SIGGEN_EXCLUDE_SAFE_RECIPE_DEPS += "\
>    oe-swupd-helpers->bash \
>    oe-swupd-helpers->busybox \
> +  swupd-client->libarchive \
>  "

For now this change is okay.

I just have one general problem: I'm not sure whether I should consider
myself the maintainer who merges this. I know that I am listed as
"tentative" maintainer, but it practice it hasn't been my job and I
don't have time for it in my spare time either.

I did some work with swupd again recently, resulting in https://github.
com/pohly/meta-swupd/commits/master and https://github.com/intel/intel-
iot-refkit/pull/318, but that's just a temporary activity.

I understand that this isn't a tenable situation for those of you using
meta-swupd; hopefully by the end of the year at the latest it'll be
resolved.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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