Re: [PATCH 3/3] binconfig.bbclass: fix multilib file conflicts

[Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com>]

On 04/07/2014 07:36 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 19:27 +0800, Ming Liu wrote:
>> In most cases binconfig files conflict among multilib packages, to avoid
>> that, use update-alternatives link *-config from real path with a
>> PACKAGE_ARCH suffix.
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>> Signed-off-by: Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com>
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>>   meta/classes/binconfig.bbclass | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>   1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> This isn't going in, its complex and supports a minority use case.
> binconfig should be dying out, not being extended and shored up like
> this.
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> I'd also add this patch is buggy, its pure luck that update-alternatives
> is available at rootfs generation time since its not in a visible
> dependency.
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> So going forward I'd like to see patches which simply delete binconfig
> scripts. Where there isn't a .pc alternative we should be adding them
> and pushing them upstream.
Did you mean we'd better remove all *-config scripts, insteaded by 
providing .pc files, and send the changes to all upstreams providing and 
using *-config? That seems a huge work and we need co-operate with a lot 
of projects.

//Ming Liu
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> Cheers,
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> Richard
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