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From: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: native preferences
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:14:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4DC285.3070201@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4D862E.2050202@kernelconcepts.de>

Florian Boor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dr. Michael Lauer schrieb:
>> Of course the preferred way - rather than switching distros - is to fix this obvious bug
>> in the OE metadata.
> 
> yes I see it like this. Switching to a distribution that pins more versions is
> not really what I would call a fix. It is a workaround but should not become the
> default way to deal with such issues in OE.
> What we introduced here is clearly a bug in OE and not the distributions fault.

Except that it's a bitbake issue, not a metadata issue, iirc (which is 
why it's fixed in the 1.10 branch, but not 1.8).

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-26  9:42 native preferences Florian Boor
2010-07-26 11:32 ` Koen Kooi
2010-07-26 12:08   ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-07-26 12:22     ` Koen Kooi
2010-07-26 12:38       ` Dr. Michael Lauer
2010-07-26 12:57         ` Florian Boor
2010-07-26 17:14           ` Tom Rini [this message]
2010-07-26 18:38             ` Koen Kooi

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