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 1LxRYq-0005iY-P6 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:59:48 +0200 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LxRUE-00058H-VL for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:55:02 +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 19:55:02 +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 19:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:53:33 +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 19:59:48 -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). My point is that OE won't make it 'into' the commercial device since the evaluating came out negative. BTW, I've already seen a company messing up the feeds for their commercial device by broken upgrade paths. regards, Koen And why is the spellcheck button next to the send button in thunderbird? I've already sent 3 bogus mails today because my motoric skills suffer from a lack of coffee