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 1OdSZp-0002PH-Pg for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:39:02 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdSZY-0000IU-0i for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:38:44 +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 ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:38:44 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:38:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:38:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C4D586A.5040202@kernelconcepts.de> <4C4D862E.2050202@kernelconcepts.de> <4C4DC285.3070201@mentor.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: <4C4DC285.3070201@mentor.com> 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=-2.6 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: native preferences 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: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:39:02 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26-07-10 19:14, Tom Rini wrote: > Florian Boor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Dr. Michael Lauer schrieb: >>> Of course the preferred way - rather than switching distros - is to >>> fix this obvious bug >>> in the OE metadata. >> >> yes I see it like this. Switching to a distribution that pins more >> versions is >> not really what I would call a fix. It is a workaround but should not >> become the >> default way to deal with such issues in OE. >> What we introduced here is clearly a bug in OE and not the >> distributions fault. > > Except that it's a bitbake issue, not a metadata issue, iirc (which is > why it's fixed in the 1.10 branch, but not 1.8). Yes, that's why I said "the bug has been fixed in bitbake 1.10" earlier in the thread :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMTdYqMkyGM64RGpERAnN3AKCdCvwWQhKF8Ta4A4x/vpctt45XGgCcC66C 7swo93nDkqCt95K4OPWbTxY= =ENxb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----