Re: [meta-oe][meta-networking][PATCH V2 3/3] ntp: Clean up recipes

[Joe MacDonald <Joe.MacDonald@windriver.com>]

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[Re: [oe] [meta-oe][meta-networking][PATCH V2 3/3] ntp: Clean up recipes] On 12.11.02 (Fri 14:10) Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Friday 02 November 2012 10:02:23 Joe MacDonald wrote:
> > On 12.11.02 (Fri 13:38) Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > I have to say I think that these days this could be better implemented
> > > as one ntp recipe with a PACKAGECONFIG that you can use to enable
> > > OpenSSL support if desired. (At the time the ntp/ntp-ssl split was
> > > done, PACKAGECONFIG did not exist). Then it becomes a distro-level
> > > choice as to whether this is enabled as I believe was originally
> > > intended.
> > 
> > I'm also perfectly fine with that.  Question, though.  Do you mean that
> > the presence of OpenSSL in the distro would then mean you get ntp-ssl
> > all the time?  That would be fine for me, but I wonder if anyone else
> > might want OpenSSL on their system but a non-ssl-enabled ntp?  Probably
> > a silly case to be thinking about anyway.
> 
> The idea with PACKAGECONFIG is it allows per-recipe control over this kind of 
> thing. The default would be for OpenSSL support to be disabled, but it could 
> be enabled with a bbappend containing PACKAGECONFIG += "openssl"; 
> alternatively you could do PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-ntp = " openssl" in the 
> distro .conf file or even local.conf.
> 
> I'll send a patch.

Great.  Thanks, Paul.

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