Re: [PATCH] Upgrade guile from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7.

[Marc Olzheim <zlo@zlo.nu>]

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:22:04AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 2) You can include the checksums in the recipe now. See:
> >
> > http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/curl/curl_7.19.7.bb
> >
> > look in the curl-common.inc file for the "tarball" naming.
> 
>   ok, there's some curious stuff going on there.  first, while the
> newest curl .bb file is version 7.19.7, there is no equivalent
> curl-native .bb file, even though earlier version have them.  is there
> a reason for that?

Yes, I did not bother to add a -native version of it, because the update
(from 7.19.6) did not provide anything new or fixed anything that would
be of value to an OE build. ;-)

>   also, it's only that latest .bb file -- curl_7.19.7.bb -- that has
> the tarball checksums.  if there *was* a corresponding -native .bb
> file, would it *also* need those identical checksums?  i would like to
> think not since that would be redundant.  a grep of recipes shows only
> two recipes that appear to be taking advantage of this feature --
> busybox and curl.

The -native .bb would include the non-native .bb and thus use the same
checksums, which would be correct.

Marc

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