Re: [PATCH] openssl: Fix symlink creation

[Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>]

On 04/19/2017 04:03 PM, David Vincent wrote:
> The problem is that I must be able to manage the configuration of a machine
> without physical intervention and only via package upgrades. A new
> configuration can be applied simply by incrementing the PR of a configuration
> package.
>
> But maybe this is a use case only needed by me and I should manage it in my
> own specific layer ?
>
> Now that I think of it, I have the same kind of problem for all machine
> specific configurations. For now, I just replace the PACKAGE_ARCH in my BSP
> layer with a machine specific one to indicate that a package contains a
> configuration valid only for a specific machine. Maybe, in a future release, it
> should be desirable to create -conf packages based on the CONFFILES variable ?
> I don't know if it's a good idea, but maybe I could bring that up on the
> architecture mailing list ?

By all means please do so. Yocto lacks a solution for configuration 
management, and this was discussed some time ago, although I cannot 
anymore find where it happened. Mark, do you remember?


Alex