Re: [meta-webserver][PATCH 1/1] webmin: drop allarch

[Anders Darander <anders@chargestorm.se>]

* Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> [140625 09:46]:

> On Tuesday 24 June 2014 09:54:12 Anders Darander wrote:
> > * runtime dependencies are TUNE_PKGARCH causing do_package_write_*
> >   task to have different signature for MACHINEs with different
> >   TUNE_PKGARCH

> > -inherit allarch perlnative update-rc.d
> > +inherit perlnative update-rc.d

> So apart from me being reticent to make this change at all (for reasons that 
> we've discussed before), 

Yes, I'm well aware of those discussions. I was actually thinking about
CC:ing you on my reply to Martin, after he suggested something like this
change.

> there is another issue - allarch.bbclass does more than just setting
> PACKAGE_ARCH, it also disables certain other functionality such as
> debug symbol splitting which is superfluous for these kinds of
> recipes; in my testing when I originally wrote the webmin recipe this
> significantly reduced the time required to build the recipe. We can't
> just drop this inherit without regard to that. (I'm sure the same
> applies elsewhere, it's just that the size of webmin makes the impact
> significant.)

I'm all for saving time! (And I'm not personally concerned by this
issue, as I'm currently only using webmin in a build tree for a signle
machine).

Though, to get back to Martin Jansa's issue; if there isn't already an
enhancment request file to the Yocto bugzilla, maybe it's time to file
one regarding the possibillity of having an allarch package
RDEPENDS/RRECOMMNEND a package with an ARCH or MACHINE tune...

Paul, what do you think about the feasibility of finding such a
solution?

Cheers,
Anders

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Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB