[OE-core] [RFC 1/2] gstreamer: sync packaging with OE .dev

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:09:49AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:20 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > some text here
> 
> It took all my restraint to not just reply with:
> """
> NAK
> 
> <insert reason for NAK here, I can't be bothered to type it>
> """
> 
> We've been around in a few circles with this. The problem is that if we
> apply this patch we have no clue which gst-plugin from the good, the bad
> and the ugly provides something you're after to include in an image.
> This results in bitbake being pretty clueless about whether a given
> build will succeed or not. In general I'm not a fan of having
> non-deterministic builds as they tend to annoy users.
> 
> If this position isn't acceptable then we'll probably have to move to a
> situation where we list which plugins each of the packages builds and
> drop the dyanmic provides. That is a maintenance pain and I don't take
> that step lightly but I don't see any other options. I'm open to
> suggestions though.

Something like:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-April/031739.html
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-April/031740.html
?

Regards,

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
> > ---
> >  .../gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc              |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
> > index 796df14..dae9416 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
> > @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ python populate_packages_prepend () {
> >  	glibdir = bb.data.expand('${libdir}', d)
> >  
> >  	do_split_packages(d, glibdir, '^lib(.*)\.so\.*', 'lib%s', 'gstreamer %s library', extra_depends='', allow_links=True)
> > -	do_split_packages(d, gst_libdir, 'libgst(.*)\.so$', bb.data.expand('${PN}-%s', d), 'GStreamer plugin for %s', postinst=postinst, extra_depends=bb.data.expand('${PN}',d))
> > -	do_split_packages(d, gst_libdir, 'libgst(.*)\.l?a$', bb.data.expand('${PN}-%s-dev', d), 'GStreamer plugin for %s (development files)', extra_depends=bb.data.expand('${PN}-dev',d))
> > +	do_split_packages(d, gst_libdir, '^libgst(.*)\.so$', 'gst-plugin-%s', 'GStreamer plugin for %s', postinst=postinst, extra_depends='')
> > +	do_split_packages(d, gst_libdir, '^libgst(.*)\.l?a$', 'gst-plugin-%s-dev', 'GStreamer plugin for %s (development files)', extra_depends='')
> >  	
> >  	pn = bb.data.getVar('PN', d, 1)
> >  	metapkg =  pn + '-meta'
> 
> 
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