On Wed, 28 Sept 2022 at 10:55, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > I wondered about that. The thing is if you're planning to decide to do > some kind of automated update or user warning message, you need a > version string in the file itself to know what version you're dealing > with so whilst I can see why you might be interested in that > information, I'm not convinced it is as useful as you'd first think as > you'll need other information anyway... > > Regardless, it would suggest we should be ignoring the file (whether > create it or not). > > Taking another example to suggest it is broken, what if I delete one of > the files and let the setup scripts recreate it after using a different > TEMPLATECONF setting? Which value should templateconf.cfg have?
I have already written a patch :) It creates templateconf.cfg if it does not yet exist, but otherwise doesn't read or write to it. https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib/commit/?h=akanavin/package-version-updates&id=0644e4cb1415b44833d57baf9d57845a331bb70b Alex
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