[OE-core] should recipes be distro agnostic?

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:31 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 26 January 2012 07:52:22 Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> > By coincidence I bumped into this in oe-core:
> > 
> > ./meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc:EXTRA_OECONF_append_angstrom = "
> > ac_cv_glibc_ver=libc6.4"
> > 
> > That also triggered me to do this:
> > 
> > frans at frans-desktop:~/workspace/openembedded-core$ grep -r _poky .
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_0.9.10.bb:DEPENDS_append_poky = "
> > libowl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_0.9.10.bb:SRC_URI_append_poky = "
> > file://owl-window-menu.patch"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/leafpad/leafpad_0.8.18.1.bb:DEPENDS_append_poky = "
> > libowl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/leafpad/leafpad_0.8.18.1.bb:SRC_URI_append_poky += "
> > file://owl-menu.patch;apply=yes "
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/dates.inc:OWL_poky = "--enable-owl
> > --disable-dnd"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/dates.inc:DEPENDS_append_poky = " libowl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/dates.inc:SRC_URI_append_poky = "
> > file://dates-owl-window-menu.patch;apply=yes "
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/tasks_0.19.bb:OWL_poky = "--with-owl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/contacts.inc:DEPENDS_append_poky = " libowl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/contacts.inc:OWL_poky = "--enable-owl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/contacts.inc:SRC_URI_append_poky = "
> > file://contacts-owl-window-menu.patch;apply=yes "
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/tasks.inc:DEPENDS_append_poky = " libowl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/pimlico/tasks.inc:OWL_poky ?= "--enable-owl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/oh-puzzles_git.bb:DEPENDS_append_poky = "
> > libowl"
> > ./meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/oh-puzzles_git.bb:SRC_URI_append_poky = "
> > file://oh-puzzles-owl-menu.patch;striplevel=0 "
> > ./meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime_4.6.bb:EXTRA_OECONF_append_poky-lsb
> > = " --enable-clocale=gnu"
> > 
> > I'd hoped oe-core to be core and not know things about distro's etc.
> > E.g. the first case with apt, this should probably be fixed with a
> > .bbappend in the angstrom layer, shouldn't it.
> > And the poky things in a poky layer.
> 
> Absolutely, there should be no distro-specific items in OE-Core at all, and I 
> have to admit I was not aware they were there. Most of the poky ones seem to 
> be related to enabling libowl in various Sato apps - I don't know enough about 
> this area to know if we should now just always be applying these or whether 
> they indeed need to be moved out. Richard/Saul/anyone else?

Agreed, we need to find a better way to handle those. As you say, there
were nearly all libowl related. The poky-lsb override should become
linuxstdbase or whatever the dedicated override we created was, that is
just a simple mistake to fix.

The libowl changes shouldn't always be applied, they are rather sato
specific. We could add a sato override to replace that one?

Cheers,

Richard