From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [130.89.2.9] (helo=smtp.utwente.nl) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ii5GX-0000I3-KY for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:32:37 +0200 Received: from Powerbook-2.local (dominion.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.193.158]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l9H96xUx001917 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:07:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4715D0B4.7010401@student.utwente.nl> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:07:00 +0200 From: Koen Kooi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions References: <200710151419.07302.openembedded@haerwu.biz> <1192464632.25543.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4713AD5F.3040807@student.utwente.nl> <1192478818.25543.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1192478818.25543.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: k.kooi@student.utwente.nl X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: [RFC] Handling of virtual/* namespace in packages 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: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:32:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Purdie schreef: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: >> Richard Purdie schreef: >>> So perhaps we should just standardise the existing xserver behaviour >>> into a dedicated namespace: >>> >>> DEPENDS = "virtual/xserver" >>> RDEPENDS_xyz = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_xserver}" >>> >>> and the machine.conf in this case would say >>> >>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/xserver = "xserver-kdrive" >>> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_xserver = "xserver-kdrive-fbdev" >> We have the ${XSERVER} var for runtime selecting it: > > Indeed. So what should we use for update-alternatives, > ${UPDATE-ALTERNATIVES} ? My point was that this is going to keep biting > us and a dedicated namespace might make sense? I'd say we copy the VIRTUAL-RUNTIME (note the OEDEM hyphen :) ) from poky for kdrive and u-a. Any objections? regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHFdCzMkyGM64RGpERAjzzAJ9NO/OysPMsAvQwoTShIhPawLm1sgCginm5 qL4BSJa9aw9FMgt7p3vzChk= =pzAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----