From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [130.89.2.8] (helo=smtp.utwente.nl) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J6iIE-0004ir-Sg for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:04:10 +0100 Received: from Powerbook-2.local (vpn006136.vpn.utwente.nl [130.89.6.136]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id lBO7wb0k010449 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:58:38 +0100 Message-ID: <476F66AE.40601@student.utwente.nl> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:58:38 +0100 From: Koen Kooi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions References: <476F07C6.7010308@whitby.id.au> In-Reply-To: <476F07C6.7010308@whitby.id.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 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: DISTRO_FEED_CONFIGS 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: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:04:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rod Whitby schreef: > I would like to propose a new standard OE variable called > DISTRO_FEED_CONFIGS which is a list of packages to be installed in a > rootfs to enable the corresponding DISTRO_PACKAGE_MANAGER to actually > access the feeds associated with the distro. A distro which did not > have feed config packages could leave it as the default empty string and > remain unchanged in the face of this RFC. > > This variable would be set in the respective distro.conf, along with > DISTRO_PACKAGE_MANAGER. It would initially be used in base-image.bb > (see that file for an example of use), and then elsewhere as desired. > > For example, in Angstrom, it would replace the existing > ANGSTROM_FEED_CONFIGS variable. +1 from me. As a side note: this won't touch how the FEED_URIs for static feeds are used, but will only affect distros that want to put them under package-management. regards, Koen - -- koen@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl will go go away in december 2007, please use k.kooi@student.utwente.nl instead. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHb2auMkyGM64RGpERAvyQAJ4tFxwOU5hvhO6RuvUNhTZywXDQBwCeLiDr IxBBYAK2LRWcG0Y1Ief8wGA= =CVj6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----