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Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] LAYERSERIES
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On Sat, 2018-04-14 at 17:48 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Fri 2018-04-06 @ 10:56:53 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 
> > To be really clear, "master" is never a value that would appear in
> > LAYERSERIES. That would let everyone be lazy and master would match
> > everywhere, then this would all be pointless.
> So what happens when the master branch of a BSP layer doesn't work
> with the
> last release, but bitbake hasn't been updated with the next release's
> name?
> 
> I.e. the sumo branch of meta-bsp has
> 
> 	LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_bsp = "sumo"
> 
> but what am I supposed to put as the value when meta-bsp's master
> branch
> becomes incompatible with sumo? "master" is not allowed, and "thud"
> fails too.
> 
> At some point between one release and the next something might/will
> break. In
> which case the only thing a BSP's master branch will work with is
> openembedded-core's master.

Post release of sumo we'll add thud as a possible option to OE-Core and
things should be ok?

Cheers,

Richard