From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LxRTz-0005ML-05 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:54:47 +0200 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LxRPO-0004vB-9F for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:50:02 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:50:02 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:50:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:48:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <49F1FCFB.9000205@balister.org> <20090424193245.GD15489@smtp.west.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090415 Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <20090424193245.GD15489@smtp.west.cox.net> Sender: news Subject: Re: reverting some csets that kill package upgrade paths 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, 24 Apr 2009 19:54:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 24-04-09 21:32, Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:03:18PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > >> Upgrade paths are the foundation of package management, breaking them is >> stabbing people using your binaries in the eye. Do you want to tell the >> companies evaluating OE using .dev that they can't use the feature >> anymore that drew them to OE, namely package management? > > Red Herring. No commerical device is going to point to some random feed > and just hope things work out fine. No, they're going to point at their > supported feeds with updates they've tested and fixed any bugs that they > happened to have found (and pushed back because they're Good Guys). >