Re: [PATCH] glib-2.0: remove old glib-2.0-native recipes

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 16:33 -0500, Mike Westerhof wrote:
> Antonio Ospite wrote:
> > Having these around can cause some conflict in recipes depending on
> > recent glib-2.0-native, see [1].
> > 
> > What can happen is that, when no preferred versions are set (like in
> > DISTRO=minimal), bitbake picks up an older -native recipe even if a more
> > recent one using the BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" mechanism exists.
> > 
> > [1] http://tinderbox.openembedded.org/packages/540390/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
> > ---
> > Please check if the commit message is clear enough, I think I've figured
> > out what's happening behind the scenes, but I have not that deep
> > knowledge of bitbake.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >    Antonio Ospite
> >    http://ao2.it
> > 
> > 
> >  .../glib-gettextize-dir.patch                      |   11 --
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.12.4.bb         |   49 ----------
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.16.1.bb         |   40 --------
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.18.0.bb         |   40 --------
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.2.3.bb          |  100 --------------------
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.22.1.bb         |   39 --------
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.4.6.bb          |   49 ----------
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.6.5.bb          |   51 ----------
> >  recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.6.6.bb          |   51 ----------
> >  9 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 430 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native-2.12.4/glib-gettextize-dir.patch
> >  delete mode 100644 recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.12.4.bb
> >  delete mode 100644 recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.16.1.bb
> >  delete mode 100644 recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.18.0.bb
> >  delete mode 100644 recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.2.3.bb
> >  delete mode 100644 recipes/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-native_2.22.1.bb
> 
> NACK.  This glib version is still in use; don't delete it:
> /u/slug/slugos/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/glib-2.0-native-2.22.1-r6.2
> 
> (Surely there must a better way to fix this than removal of active recipes?)

If 2.22.1 was converted to BBCLASSEXTEND, the rest of the mechanisms
would work right again.

-- 
Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
Mentor Graphics Corporation