[OE-core] [PATCH] dropbear: bump epoch to fix upgrade path in meta-oe

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Thu Dec 15 13:11:37 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:08 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> There was a 'dropbear-systemd' binary package on meta-oe versioned as
> 'v1' and it has been merged on dropbear's bbappend; to fix the upgrade
> path for the dropbear-systemd package on meta-oe we need to bump epoch
> and to avoid messing it up this needs to go into OE-Core.

If it's just a single output binary at issue then setting PKGE for that
one package would be less disruptive.  I must admit I don't fully
understand why this needs to be in oe-core at all though: what exactly
is the "messing up" that would happen otherwise?

p.






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