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On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 07:19 -0500, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> I'm clearly missing something here. If we have a generic mechanism to run 
> postinstall scripts now, and "package-management" is not in IMAGE_FEATURES, 
> why do we need or want the package manager to be in control of running the 
> postinstalls?

We don't.  The postinsts should be getting run by run-postinsts.

I must admit I still don't entirely understand what the problem is that
Laurentiu is trying to fix with his patch, and the description in the
Yocto bugzilla remains opaque to me.  Can you clarify what exactly it is
that's currently going wrong?

p.