From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E5977D55 for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 14:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 May 2017 07:10:32 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.38,292,1491289200"; d="scan'208";a="97700204" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com ([10.237.68.161]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 May 2017 07:10:31 -0700 From: Alexander Kanavin To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 17:10:27 +0300 Message-Id: <20170505141027.8381-6-alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20170505141027.8381-1-alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> References: <20170505141027.8381-1-alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> Subject: [PATCHv2 6/6] README.LSB: describe oe-core's deviations from the LSB spec X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:10:30 -0000 Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin --- README.LSB | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.LSB diff --git a/README.LSB b/README.LSB new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c9dca3fc75e --- /dev/null +++ b/README.LSB @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +OE-Core aims to be able to provide basic LSB compatible images. There +are some challenges for OE as LSB isn't always 100% relevant to its +target embedded and IoT audiences. + +One challenge is that the LSB spec is no longer being actively +developed [https://github.com/LinuxStandardBase/lsb] and has +components which are end of life or significantly dated. OE +therefore provides compatibility with the following caveats: + +* Qt4 is provided by the separate meta-qt4 layer. Its noted that Qt4 + is end of life and this isn't something the core project regularly + tests any longer. Users are recommended to group together to support + maintenance of that layer. [http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-qt4/] + +* mailx has been dropped since its no longer being developed upstream + and there are better, more modern replacements such as s-nail + (http://sdaoden.eu/code.html) or mailutils (http://mailutils.org/). + +* A few perl modules that were required by LSB 4.x aren't provided: + libclass-isa, libenv, libdumpvalue, libfile-checktree, + libi18n-collate, libpod-plainer. + +* libpng 1.2 isn't provided; oe-core includes the latest release of libpng + instead. + -- 2.11.0