From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NGUzQ-000096-FH for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:02:19 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NGUxt-0004kA-9V for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:00:41 +0100 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, 04 Dec 2009 11:00:41 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:00:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:00:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20091204090048.GA3233@jama> 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 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091109 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <20091204090048.GA3233@jama> Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: [RFC] sane-providers.inc with default providers for all distributions 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, 04 Dec 2009 10:02:19 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04-12-09 10:00, Martin Jansa wrote: > I would like to create new file conf/distro/include/sane-providers.inc > where we could store all default providers. If it's the same for everyone, can't it be put in bitbake.conf? I'm growing a bit tired of mandatory sane-* files to include. regards, Koen > Every distro should include this file and probably should drop own > PREFERRED_PROVIDERS if preferring same provider as sane-providers.inc. > > I already prepared something, but not sure if its worth finishing. So I > need your opinion. > > With this file it would be easier to add PROVIDES to new recipe while > forcing old provider in sane-providers for all other distributions > (something like what happen with fso-apm in shr). > > Maybe it will be nice to have all options in comment above the default > provider. > > I would use weak assignments in this file, but it means that this file > needs to be included after all distro prefered providers, because distro > config use weak assignments too (and also other includes like eglibc.inc). > > As opkg have patch from cworth now I would add > PROVIDERS=update-alternatives to opkg and change preferred u-a provider > to opkg (removing 2 u-a scripts on target). > > This process seems a bit error prone to me, so I can prepare patch for > shr and angstrom where I can test with rebuild that "nothing" changed. > For other distributions it would be nice to include sane-providers by > distro maintainers. > > Can I go ahead and send patches for this or do you see some dead-end as > with SRCPV? :). > > Regards, >