On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:46 AM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Yes, it mainly blew up because the tested oe-core branch had the removal of 
> lzo but meta-oe didn’t have the addition.
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> Would you like a resend of the xen patch to add an option, but leave it as 
> enabled?  Or will you merge this patch which disables lzo?
>
>


The patch is fine as-is. If someone needs it on by default, they can
scream and send a patch to change that status :) It will still be
available, so they can easily carry bbappend with a packageconfig.

Bruce



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> Ross
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> From: Bruce Ashfield <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 13:59
> To: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>, 
> [email protected] 
> <[email protected]>, nd <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 9/9] lzo: remove recipe from oe-core
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> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 7:26 AM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 25 May 2022, at 09:03, Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ross, Bruce,
> >
> > Il giorno Tue, 24 May 2022 16:24:01 +0100
> > "Ross Burton" <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> >
> >> LZO is a fairly archaic compression format that hasn't been updated
> >> since 2017.  It's now unused by anything else in oe-core, so remove
> >> the recipes.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> >
> > I love removals of archaic features...
> >
> > ...and how they make things explode :-)
> >
> > stdio: ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'lzo' (but
> > /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-virt/build/meta-virtualization/recipes-extended/xen/xen_4.16.bb,
> > /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-virt/build/meta-virtualization/recipes-extended/xen/xen-tools_4.16.bb
> > DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
>
> I’ve also just sent a RFC patch for xen to disable LZO entirely, but I’ll 
> leave that up to Bruce to decide.  If lzo is removed from core it will be 
> added to meta-oe, so xen will continue to build either way.
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> right.
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> We'll keep it as optional.
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> But isn't this just a timing issue for the failure ? Or are we missing a 
> dependency in meta-virt on where this landed in meta-oe ? We definitely have 
> meta-oe dependencies in meta-virt, so the AB should already have those in 
> place .. so this must have only blown up because it hasn't landed in meta-oe 
> yet (nor should it probably have, as this is a test of the removal in OEcore) 
> .
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> Either way, I'll merge the meta-virt, make-it-optional patch shortly and this 
> should be good to go.
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> Bruce
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> Ross
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> --
>
> - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at 
> its end
> - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II



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