From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.68.91.202] (helo=xora.org.uk) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IsweK-0003aE-9v for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:34:04 +0100 Received: from cimmeria ([::ffff:78.86.128.56]) (AUTH: LOGIN dp, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by xora.org.uk with esmtp; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:32:20 +0000 id 00064627.473D5594.000030AF Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:32:22 +0000 From: Graeme Gregory To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-ID: <20071116083222.552a9c30@cimmeria> In-Reply-To: <20071116011627.GA7192@lenovo> References: <472216E5.6060708@student.utwente.nl> <20071115080222.2c3a597f@cimmeria> <20071116011627.GA7192@lenovo> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] adding CONFLICTS 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: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:34:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:16:27 -0600 David Farning wrote: > A good way to look at this issue is to study how Seth Vidal sovled the > issue in YUM, Fedora's updater. It is written in python, so easy for > BitBake developers to understand. > > It seems that it would add a good deal of complexity to the current > design of bitbake. > > Although useful this might be an idea for bitbake 2.0 > We already have fully working package Conflicts: working. This is talking about staging conflicts. Or in otherwords a work around until package staging works fully including our already complete package conflicts handling. Graeme