From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:05:45 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] How handle broken or partly broken packages in the distribution In-Reply-To: References: <1232651253.5311.19.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <20090123095712.6878553d@hcegtvedt> Message-ID: <20090126070545.1288702e@hcegtvedt> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:12:56 -0200 Thiago A. Corr?a wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Hans-Christian Egtvedt > wrote: > >> so they are not selectable for AVR32 users > >> > > > > To make it harder to fix the problem with the packages? > > > > It might also be a result from the development environment on your > > build machine, like the recent alsa-utils errors somebody else > > found on opensuse, which I have not triggered in my Ubuntu system. > > > > I agree with HCE. Making packages unselectable or invisible is not a > good approach. > I think it would be very sufficient to just document it on the help > string and take it out of the defconfig for that arch. > Or just have a Wiki with a list of all packages and which archs they work and do not work on. Users should also see/find this table fast, so they easily know what is expected to work and what is not. It might even encourage users to start fiddling with packages not working. -- Best regards, Hans-Christian Egtvedt