From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-qw0-f47.google.com ([209.85.216.47]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RFv9B-0004DK-IT for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:55:01 +0200 Received: by qam2 with SMTP id 2so825178qam.6 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:49:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3T65mWNhfMEPcev5K/qqhEjYTfG1/4OAsJV8e4rYABI=; b=a/eE+AcB64xFqPCgo3vvpmH4YShD7Hbwl6Y5O4uOWqo3ltWJVp/MJK0K5rvKFk63Nl i8KJjVfbDi6aYMiSvkqw05SOmoW/S54/d2zX0VtaiWDvL6eKPLIBYr8HXfOwKjHiM0gN rzslUV5BlyNVwTWqh07SdIV6D5PNGQuxCbwig= Received: by 10.229.63.65 with SMTP id a1mr4690149qci.174.1318888151653; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.23.8.192] (natint3.juniper.net. [66.129.224.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fj8sm23237098qab.9.2011.10.17.14.49.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9CA2D1.2000304@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:49:05 -0700 From: Khem Raj User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <20111015185155.DA982101FE@opal> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [oe-commits] Khem Raj : binutils-cross: Sync with oe-core 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: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:55:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/16/2011 11:35 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > 2011/10/17 Khem Raj > >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Andrea Adami >> wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:51 PM, wrote: >>> >>>> Module: meta-openembedded.git >>>> Branch: master >>>> Commit: 92b02b7209e426a70cc5626e7bdbc82052e01ac5 >>>> URL: >>>> >> http://git.openembedded.org/?p=meta-openembedded.git&a=commit;h=92b02b7209e426a70cc5626e7bdbc82052e01ac5 >>>> >>>> Author: Khem Raj >>>> Date: Sun Oct 16 01:28:32 2011 +0000 >>>> >>>> binutils-cross: Sync with oe-core >>>> >>>> Now we have own copy of binutils-cross in meta-oe >>>> >>> >>> I can't unfortunately find the discussion which supposedly provided a >> valid >>> reason for binutils-2.20 in meta-oe while binutils-2.21 is in oe-core. >>> I'm against that kind of policy for meta-oe, particularly when it's about >>> toolchain. >> >> oe-core is deprecating versions that are still used by consumers of >> meta-oe (mainly angstrom 2010 release) >> since its toolchain and it will also benefit derivatives of angstrom. >> Angstrom could also move these elements >> into meta-angstrom if we think that its only angstrom specific and no >> other consumers of oe-core needs them >> layer maintainers make judgement call which they think should benefit >> wider community >> >> similar but not for binutils here is a relevant thread >> > > I feel if a distro or bsp needs a version of a package that is older than > the oe-core one, it should be stored in the distro or bsp layer. > Or is meta-oe also wanting to keep binutils 18.50? In oe classic this is > used by the nios2 hw (and afaik there is no newer binutils supporting > nios2)? I'd say if some layer needs older versions it is up to them. > This is a bit different when a version is retired from oe-core there might be more than one bsp using it therefore it would be more beneficial to keep it in a common layer > What we are lacking here is a policy on purpose/goal of meta-oe and what > goes in (and what not). This has been discussed quite a bit when we decided to move to layered structure. meta-oe infact is an umbrella of layers and each layer can have it own development policies. > > Frans > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel