-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25-04-10 21:57, Tom Rini wrote: > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 21:28 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 25-04-10 19:48, Tom Rini wrote: >>> Hey all. I thought I would try and explain what Chris has been up to >>> with at least some of the base.bbclass changes (the ones related to >>> md5sum and cp). >>> >>> Right now, with a big enough BB_NUM_THREADS we can get into a race where >>> coreutils-native is installing programs and elsewhere we are in a >>> do_fetch and either trying to use 'cp' or 'md5sum', and blam, we try and >>> invoke the program while it's being installed (and see things like >>> sh: /path/to/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/cp: Textfile is busy). >>> >>> There's a few ways out of this: >>> 1) Don't rely on 'cp' and 'md5sum' anymore but use python for it. >>> 2) Make an oe_cp and oe_md5sum to go with oe_sha256sum >>> 3) IIRC, the big part of coreutils-native was a fully functional, >>> always, 'install'. We could just copy the install we build or provide >>> an install wrapper (oe_install) or so >>> 4) ??? >> >> Even thought I loathe python, option 1 sounds like a nice way to go >> since it doesn't involve butchering recipes. > > I think we're OK, except in the case of when we can't rely on a built-in > md5sum (and then the race comes back) and just need to figure out if the > libpam-base-files recipe does things (a) optimally and (b) if that's a > common thing. > > Currently, with a quick glance at the recipe, I don't see any > distro-specific overrides, so I'd be inclined to call it lazy recipe > writing, until someone points out history of why that's a good thing..
I have no problem with changing the libpam-base-files SRC_URI to file://pam.d/ or file://foo.pam \ file://bar.pam \ ... etc But I would like to see it documented in the OE manual that file://dir/* can't be used, and why. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFL1TMeMkyGM64RGpERApkGAJ97rdsQSb+HvBKP2xKUdyAvqyfqPgCfUEBG h/0qC3TUbMrfO0oOvZv9mmk= =cb0z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
