From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Si4oV-00049l-5n for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:26:19 +0200 Received: from azsmga002.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.35]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Jun 2012 07:15:31 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="115042937" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.123]) by AZSMGA002.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Jun 2012 07:15:30 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:15:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3297658.NN3oiPzfJJ@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.2.0-25-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.3; i686; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RFC: removing buildhistory support for flat versioned package info X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer 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, 22 Jun 2012 14:26:19 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, One feature carried over from packagehistory.bbclass into buildhistory.bbclass was the ability for it to optionally output PE:PV-PR named package info files and then create a "latest" symlink to the latest one, which was useful in the absence of the integration with git which buildhistory now has. This can currently be enabled by setting BUILDHISTORY_KEEP_VERSIONS to 1. I suspect not many people even know this feature exists let alone use it, and looking at the code it could be simplified a bit by not supporting it at all. Are there any objections to removing it? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre