Re: blacklist.bbclass

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 03/18/2011 02:35 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 21:33 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> 2011/3/18 Dr. Michael Lauer<mickey@vanille-media.de>:
>>> Salut,
>>>
>>> the blacklisting of packages as found in angstrom.bbclass
>>> is pretty helpful and would be beneficial to all kinds
>>> of distribution configurations in OE. Would there be
>>> a strong objection of renaming this to blacklist.bbclass?
>>>
>>> Copying, of course, is also a possibility, but
>>> in my opinion it would only be the second best choice.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> :M:
>>
>> If blacklisting a certain package for all distro's is there then still
>> a need to keep those blacklisted packages ????
>
> The class that Mickey is talking about is just the mechanism to allow
> blacklisting.  It doesn't actually contain a list of blacklisted
> packages; I think that typically goes in DISTRO.conf for distros that
> use it.
>
> However, if we do want to rename it to something more global (which I
> agree seems like a good idea) then the contents would need a bit of
> tweaking since both the variables that it looks at, and the messages
> that it outputs, make reference to Angstrom specifically.

I've had that locally for a long while now (BLACKLIST and just %s is 
unsupported because %s).  So I vote in favor of a generic list distros 
blacklist items class.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation