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 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QbbXA-0003Qg-1f for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:53:08 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QbbTc-0004Ay-NX for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:49:28 +0200 Received: from ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl ([84.80.112.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:49:28 +0200 Received: from koen by ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:49:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:49:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101127 Shredder/3.0.11pre In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Subject: Re: [meta-oe][PATCH 0/2] Fix parse errors 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: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:53:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28-06-11 18:25, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:35, Koen Kooi wrote: >> It makes it easier to deploy updates for the main packages (e.g. >> sysvinit, systemd) to all the targets without having to build it for all >> targets. It's a weird optimization, but makes life a lot easier for >> people needing to support a ton of machines :) > > I didn't follow it; for example if you change PR of the recipe it > will be rebuild n times (being n the number of machines) and each of > it will *overwrite* the non-machine packages. This seems wrong for me. > > Can you describe a use case? Rolling out a fix for the generic package without having to rebuild it N times. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFOCgYIMkyGM64RGpERAoFEAJ9O58mXspRM3IAljyCO3Udrh1G40gCgrMza Qmh+JOLkLvq6qUCbrnIcKSU= =/YG8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----