On 28 November 2012 15:51, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Even though the current xserver in oe-core (1.13) doesn't ship these as >> standalone extensions, older X servers required by binary drives >> (e.g. meta-intel's 1.9) still install them separately. As the packages >> didn't >> exist in xserver-xorg.inc the extensions were not packaged, and X didn't >> work. >> >> Revolve this by restoring the package definitions, and moving the upgrade >> path >> dependencies to xserver-xorg_1.13.bb. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <[email protected]> > > Wouldn't be better for this packaging be done in meta-intel in this case? > > My concern here is to leave unused meta-data; I am not a big fan of it at > first.
That's a valid concern, and I almost did that. The fact that binary drivers locked to specific version of X are so common swayed me into being nice to them, so they don't need to replicate all of the packaging themselves. Ross _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
