On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 11:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > [I get the list via gmane, so remove me from the frigging reply-to]
Gah, fix your mail filtering rules ;-) > Richard Purdie schreef: > > As hinted, I take issue with this :). As we can now lock patches to a > > given time period thanks to a neat idea/implementation by hrw, there is > > no longer an issue of making a given SCM based .bb file build against a > > variety of SRCDATES. > > The current use of min/maxdate just tags the patch as 'does not apply > after <date>', but I haven't seen people adding a rediffed patch to > address the problems the first patch was solving. We need to take great > care with this, because right now we are loosing patches. Right, that's bad and people need educating about it. The principle is sound though and it is just an education issue. > > Why split them into several files which are all > > effectively the same when a little thought can make it work in one file? > > Having multiple files means fixes are less likely to propagate all > > versions as well. > > That's why we have .inc files :) But agree on 'less is more' But the .inc file still gives a lot of overhead to bitbake and if we don't need it as its a duplicate... You see my point anyway. Richard _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
