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

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 17:46 +0100, 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?

I see no reason this shouldn't be in oecore (quite the opposite), we
just need someone to send the suitably tested patch.

Cheers,

Richard