-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Eggleton schreef op 28-11-13 11:32: > Hi Koen / Felipe, > > On Thursday 28 November 2013 10:22:31 Koen Kooi wrote: >> Felipe F. Tonello schreef op 28-11-13 01:56: >>> From: "Felipe F. Tonello" <[email protected]> This recipe supports >>> the backend for packagekit dynamically based on the IMAGE_PKGTYPE. >> >> NAK! IMAGE_FEATURES should *never* change non-image recipe params. >> This breaks using feeds horribly. > > IMAGE_PKGTYPE is influenced by PACKAGE_CLASSES; so this is not about > IMAGE_FEATURES, and correct me if I'm wrong but maintaining package feeds > would generally preclude switching to an alternative package manager, > right?
No, it's perfectly possible to build both opkg and rpm, which is what I'm currently doing. When doing that the DISTRO.conf does need to make a decision on what to support for things like packagekit. > Some options: > > 1) Apply the patch as-is. Changing the order/value of PACKAGE_CLASSES > will mean this and anything that depends upon it will rebuild. > > 2) Install the appropriate backend via some code in the image recipe. > Obviously this means you have to do this for every image recipe though. > > 3) Use non-dynamic PACKAGECONFIG. Of course this means you'll have to > remember to change this manually if you change PACKAGE_CLASSES or it'll > just be broken at runtime. > > Honestly, option 1 sounds like the best course to me here. This is rather > a special case compared to other recipes. 1) will let you end up with packagekit_1.0.ipk that only supports RPM 2) Is what we would really want, but I don't think packagekit supports that :( So that leaves 3, which makes it a clear DISTRO decision, like it should be. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFSlx+uMkyGM64RGpERAklsAJ0dtXhGERpNu+IizQN05XNliTk50wCfR8nl xGpfq7tjqZPsx1V0hSYW5qs= =1or8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
