Re: [PATCH 3/3] binconfig.bbclass: fix multilib file conflicts

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 10:27 +0800, Ming Liu wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 07:36 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 19:27 +0800, Ming Liu wrote:
> >> In most cases binconfig files conflict among multilib packages, to avoid
> >> that, use update-alternatives link *-config from real path with a
> >> PACKAGE_ARCH suffix.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com>
> >> ---
> >>   meta/classes/binconfig.bbclass | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >>   1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > This isn't going in, its complex and supports a minority use case.
> > binconfig should be dying out, not being extended and shored up like
> > this.
> >
> > I'd also add this patch is buggy, its pure luck that update-alternatives
> > is available at rootfs generation time since its not in a visible
> > dependency.
> >
> > So going forward I'd like to see patches which simply delete binconfig
> > scripts. Where there isn't a .pc alternative we should be adding them
> > and pushing them upstream.
> Did you mean we'd better remove all *-config scripts, insteaded by 
> providing .pc files, and send the changes to all upstreams providing and 
> using *-config? That seems a huge work and we need co-operate with a lot 
> of projects.

Basically, yes, that is what I mean. I might be wrong but I don't think
there are that many projects which don't ship .pc files now and just
have a binconfig as a backup.

Cheers,

Richard