From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A097311B for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 20 Apr 2017 05:37:40 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.37,225,1488873600"; d="scan'208";a="90158046" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.161]) ([10.237.68.161]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Apr 2017 05:37:39 -0700 To: David Vincent References: <20170123135916.4618-1-freesilicon@gmail.com> <6366113.GnGklEYiun@crde-port-20.cahors.local> <64f205a9-74d2-1161-14f1-5ed03298f350@linux.intel.com> <5023360.N8L8OyXh3V@crde-port-20.cahors.local> From: Alexander Kanavin Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:37:24 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5023360.N8L8OyXh3V@crde-port-20.cahors.local> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] openssl: Fix symlink creation X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:37:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/19/2017 04:03 PM, David Vincent wrote: > The problem is that I must be able to manage the configuration of a machine > without physical intervention and only via package upgrades. A new > configuration can be applied simply by incrementing the PR of a configuration > package. > > But maybe this is a use case only needed by me and I should manage it in my > own specific layer ? > > Now that I think of it, I have the same kind of problem for all machine > specific configurations. For now, I just replace the PACKAGE_ARCH in my BSP > layer with a machine specific one to indicate that a package contains a > configuration valid only for a specific machine. Maybe, in a future release, it > should be desirable to create -conf packages based on the CONFFILES variable ? > I don't know if it's a good idea, but maybe I could bring that up on the > architecture mailing list ? By all means please do so. Yocto lacks a solution for configuration management, and this was discussed some time ago, although I cannot anymore find where it happened. Mark, do you remember? Alex