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 1OULMu-0002XD-UY for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:08:04 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OULII-0000eK-2u for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:03:14 +0200 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 ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:03:14 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:03:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:03:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C2AC77A.70102@gmail.com> <4C2ACDE8.7080801@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.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:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100611 Shredder/3.0.6pre In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] opkg recipe overhaul - removal of opkg-nogpg and opkg-nogpg-nocurl. 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: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:08:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01-07-10 16:55, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Graham Gower writes: > >> None of the distros in OE > > At least the openmoko SHR distribution fetches ipkg from network and > requires curl support hence. That's not true, with curl disabled, it calls (busybox) wget. >> appear to want/need gpg or curl support in opkg; so have opkg.inc >> remove them by default. > > I do not think that supporting only offline mode (due to removal of > curl support) is a good idea. Although the opportunistic signature > verification is not secure, it would be imo bad to remove gpg support > completely because updating embedded devices in a secure manner is > important. > > A better way might be to conditionalize your '--disable-*' options > resp. make them depend on some DISTRO_FEATURE. Introducing USE flags would be a step backwards, so NAK on that. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMLK4oMkyGM64RGpERAi1LAJ92At87I57tSF/kRSlR+JAkGThQTACguKBy JqkzXKxs4DLPWSbAtSTxqIc= =RGMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----