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From: "Andreas Müller" <schnitzeltony@gmx.de>
To: "Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer"
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Coordinating inter-layer dependencies
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:51:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112100151.39198.schnitzeltony@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323303457.971.5.camel@ted>

On Thursday, December 08, 2011 01:17:37 AM Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 12:23 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > During the past month there have been a number of updates to OE-core
> > recipes that triggered parsing errors due to bbappend in other layers.
> > A small seleciton:
> > 
> > * netbase
> > * libdrm
> > * xserver-xorg
> > * clutter
> > 
> > My view is that layer maintainers need to keep an eye on potential
> > breakage and have updates ready when patches land into OE-core.
> > Looking back I can see that while the situation is improving a bit,
> > it's still not working. The problem with slow updates to layers is
> > that (with my angstrom hat on) users (and with my TI hat on) customers
> > and coworkers can't do builds without rm'ing the bbappends or
> > disabling the layer.
> 
> I've been thinking about this. I wondered if the notion of wildcards
> for .bbappend might help, e.g. a file called:
> 
> netbase_%.bbappend
> 
> would match all versions of the netbase recipe.
> 
> The % is consistent with PREFERRED_VERSION, I'm a little reluctant to
> use * since its a shell quoting mess.
> 
> It wouldn't be hard to allow bitbake to support this and would solve
> some of the issues we've been having...
> 
If being used in sub layers parse errors (weekend breakers) would turn into

* no issue
* build error

which are both enhancing current situation.

Andreas



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-10  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-01 11:23 Coordinating inter-layer dependencies Koen Kooi
2011-12-01 12:24 ` Martin Jansa
2011-12-01 12:37   ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-01 12:59     ` Otavio Salvador
2011-12-01 13:02       ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-01 13:13         ` Martin Jansa
2011-12-01 14:33           ` Chris Larson
2011-12-01 19:57             ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2011-12-01 15:36           ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-01 15:56             ` Martin Jansa
2011-12-01 16:03               ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-01 13:07       ` Martin Jansa
2011-12-01 20:33         ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-02  8:46           ` Mats Kärrman
2011-12-02 13:34             ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2011-12-02 14:38               ` Otavio Salvador
2011-12-02 16:18             ` Martin Jansa
2011-12-02 16:22               ` [PATCH] bitbake.conf: add default PRINC 0 to be able to increment it Martin Jansa
2011-12-02 16:42                 ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-02 18:39                   ` [PATCHv2] " Martin Jansa
2011-12-02 19:29                     ` Chris Larson
2011-12-05 16:09                     ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-02 19:52               ` Coordinating inter-layer dependencies Chris Larson
2011-12-02 23:58               ` Mats Kärrman
2011-12-01 19:55 ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2011-12-01 20:28   ` Chris Larson
2011-12-08  0:17 ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-08 21:07   ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2011-12-10  0:51   ` Andreas Müller [this message]

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