From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0hfe-0006UC-6N for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:57:22 +0100 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Q0hdw-0006a0-3l from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:55:36 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:55:03 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.15] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.270.1; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:55:35 -0700 Message-ID: <4D83D4C4.5010806@mentor.com> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:55:16 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <6F3B187F-5497-4504-9EEB-99204CCC815B@vanille-media.de> <1300484141.3026.6.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1300484141.3026.6.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Mar 2011 21:55:03.0677 (UTC) FILETIME=[22DB62D0:01CBE5B7] Subject: Re: blacklist.bbclass X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:57:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: >>> 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. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation