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Subject: Re: preferred-provider at the image level a.k.a why is all this fso stuff in my non-fso image
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On 26-11-08 15:51, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently the FSO developers discovered that they can put
>
> RPROVIDES = "foo"
> RCONFLICTS = "foo"
>
> in their fso-foo recipe to have OE install fso-foo instead of foo in
> their fso-image. Great.
>
> The downside: people can't get 'foo' anymore in their image since
> 'fso-foo' will _always_ get choosen over 'foo'. Not so great.
>
> Normally it would be just a matter of putting PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foo =
> "foo" in the distro.conf, but that is not an option in this case, since
> when building 'fso-image' I actually want 'fso-foo' instead of 'foo'
>
> My proposal is:
>
> * remove the RPROVIDES, leave the RCONFLICTS

http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git;a=commitdiff;h=0457511ceb1dab4454a966b344ae1953ad7dfa94

regards,

Koen



> * put 'fso-foo' in IMAGE_INSTALL in fso-images instead of 'foo'
> * educate people using RPROVIDES, RCONFLICTS and RREPLACES in recipes
>
> objections?
>
> regards,
>
> Koen