[Openembedded-architecture] Removing LSB support from OE

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 15:35 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 15:33, <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> wrote:
> > > Would you expect the yocto LSB kernels support move to that layer
> > > as
> > > well? IIRC, these the the ones that build the LTS kernels.
> > 
> > No, "poky-lsb" should really be renamed "poky-altconfig" or
> > something
> > similar, its really a set of alternate configurations we test which
> > would be defined to include the LTS kernel, probably ith sysvinit
> > (compared to systemd which we'd prefer as the default for poky).
> 
> Personally I see no value in poky-lsb or poky-altconfig moving
> forward, we think we should just alter Poky as required.  There's
> already several variations on the AB which are not stock poky or
> poky-lsb (api docs, multilib, systemd, etc), so lets just build
> variations of Poky.

What we avoid here is encoding a specific PREFERRED_VERSION for the
kernel directly into the autobuilder configuration.

There are other ways we could achieve that but we will need some kind
of metadata unless we really want to have autobuilder config in
lockstep with the metadata.

So yes, I agree but there is a reason we did this and it hasn't gone.

Cheers,

Richard