On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:02 PM Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I too think that the information may never reach the target audience, as they > could never update their builds to the point where it would start printing > 'end of life'.
Would it make sense to include this message in base-files recipe? Yocto does similar things with distro and machine name in /etc/issue on target rootfs via do_install_basefilesissue(), so including this state tag here would be also beneficial. Besides, users would see it on every boot. > > What could work instead is printing a link to the wiki during > 'oe-init-build-env'. IMHO: This I think is beneficial for developers, but rather obscure to the general audience which is booting device.... > > Alex > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 21:12, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 07:46:38PM +0100, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: >> > When OE/Yocto project goes through its lifecycle, there >> > is no any way to identify where it is other than go >> > to a Yocto wiki and look at current status. >> >> The status in the wiki can be updated. >> >> > Moreover, change from maintained to community maintained >> > end EOLing happens silently so users not always know >> > about that. >> > >> > This patch aims to remove this gap. The status should >> > be changed so users can clearly identify at which point >> > it is now: >> > Development -> Stable -> Community supported -> End Of Life >> > >> > It is now printed during the build. >> >... >> >> What is printed is the status at the point in the >> (sometime distant) past when a release was made. >> >> It is not uncommon for hardware to come with an example BSP based >> on an older release like for example Yocto 2.0.3 (sic) today. >> >> The Yocto 2.0.3 release shipped as part of this distribution would >> never print "End Of Life". >> >> cu >> Adrian >> >> -- >> >> "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out >> of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. >> "Only a promise," Lao Er said. >> Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Openembedded-core mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Regards, Andrey. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
