Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dbus: merge .bb and .inc

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 08:39 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 3 December 2015 at 07:46, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
> wrote:
>         In the layer I am trying to be compatible with OE-core master,
>         dizzy,
>         fido and jethro. That means I cannot "require
>         recipes-core/dbus/dbus_1.8.18.bb" because that file only
>         exists on
>         master.
> 
> In which case you're expecting the dbus.inc file to remain
> version-agnostic across three releases.

I agree, that's an unreasonable expectation (although it seemed to have
worked out in practice). Anyway, I already copied the file.

> Could dbus-cynara be replaced with a bbappend that adds a number of
> patches and a PACKAGECONFIG[cynara], which defaults to disabled for
> zero impact, but can be enabled at the distro level?

Unfortunately the current Cynara patches depend on an older version of
the main source code, so that won't work. Not ideal, I know, but a bit
out of my hands at the moment.

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