[OE-core] [RFC] Move package-split of kexec-tools (kdump/kexec) into oe-core?

[Saul Wold]

On 12/06/2011 09:06 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 12/6/11 10:46 AM, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> meta-openembedded uses .bbappend to change the package-split-up of
>> "kexec-tools"
>> (as in openembedded-core) into "kexec" and "kdump" packages (this was
>> classic OE
>> behaviour).
>>
>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kexec/kexec-tools_2.0.2.bbappend?id=0c6d03335c117d24096598a3415ba22f74ec4f6e
>>
>>
>> However, in openembedded-core we have a dependency on kexec-tools,
>> thus this
>> error results:
>>
>> | * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following
>> dependencies for
>> task-core-tools-testapps:
>> | * kexec-tools *
>> | * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package task-core-tools-testapps.
>>
>>
>> So the use of meta-openembedded as a layer breaks openembedded-core.
>>
>> As a solution, can we move this package-split into openembedded-core?
>>
>>
>> Other (neat!) solutions at hand? Maybe a meta-package?
>>
>
> That package split seems reasonable to me, along with corresponding
> changes to openembedded-core to choose the "right" kexec-tools.. (in
> this case since it's test apps, we'd want both...)
>
Seems right here also, just be sure to do appropriate DEPENDS and PR 
bumps for things that currently depend on kexec-tools.

Sau!

> --Mark
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Leon.
>>
>> thanks 'ant_work' for the pointer to bbappend.
>>
>>
>>
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