From: Lorn Potter <lpotter@trolltech.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Rolf Leggewie <no2spam@nospam.arcornews.de>,
openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: RFC: drop timezones from OE
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:08:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712150508.51430.lpotter@trolltech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fju2o1$9l2$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that there are two, conflicting packages in OE providing
> timezone data: tzdata from glibc and timezones from opie/handhelds.
>
> I think it would make sense to drop timezones and only have the timezone
> data from glibc as this eliminates problems where one wants to install
> package A that depends on tzdata but you also want package B where the
> dependency is declared for timezones. Currently, you can only install
> either A or B.
>
> If there is consensus on this, I would take care that OE metadata is
> updated accordingly (drop timezones folder, replace occurences of
> timezones in DEPENDS with tzdata, etc.)
The timezones from opie are at least 4 years old and out of date. You can
safely discard this package/dependency.
--
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-14 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 14:08 RFC: drop timezones from OE Rolf Leggewie
2007-12-14 15:18 ` Hans Henry von Tresckow
2007-12-14 15:32 ` Matthias Hentges
2007-12-14 19:08 ` Lorn Potter [this message]
2007-12-17 12:00 ` Rolf Leggewie
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