[OE-core] Bitbake distro packages: kill them with fire

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Wed Aug 29 12:49:53 UTC 2012


Hi,

These might not be the appropiate lists, but I might reach a few of the culprits. Over the years people have been doing 'apt get install bitbake' or 'make install' to put bitbake into /usr/bin and after a few minutes to get on irc/email/etc to complain that everything is suddenly broken. There are checks for bitbake versions in the metadata, but it can (and will!) still break with due to python path nastiness.

So to every person packaging bitbake for their distro: stop doing that!

If someone has a better suggestion to avoid this problem (more documentation doesn't work), please speak up.

Thanks,

Koen



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