[OE-core] [PING v3] [PATCH 0/2] Support additional user-defined package metadata

[Ive Found]

Please, apply patches. They are small, atomic, tested and doesn't ruin
anything, just adding the feature.

It is essential feature for us, so we've put efforts into implementing
it. We'd like to see it merged into upstream. We are small group of
enthusiasts, it will be very hard for us to maintain fork of OE (it
will be impossible in fact).

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Leonid Borisenko <ive.found at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm an owner of Kindle Touch. It's basically a computer with ARM
> Cortex-A8 based CPU and Linux. There is a [small] community of
> enthuasists developing homebrew modifications for stock software. For
> distributing of these modifications .ipk package format had been chosen
> with OE as build infrastructure.
>
> There are already several firmware versions for device and some more are
> expected. Every firmware can introduce unpredictable changes, so
> modifications for previous firmware versions could stop working.
>
> Custom metadata field with supported firmware version(s) could be
> included into package control file for preventing of installing packaged
> modifications onto unsupported firmware.
>
> But OE currently doesn't allow to define additional package metadata in
> recipes. Patch fixes it.
>
> There is already RPMSPEC_PREAMBLE variable used in package_rpm.bbclass.
> I think, it is still useful for defining custom macros in header of spec
> file (while additional user-defined metadata is placed somewhere between
> common tags).
>
> I didn't found any way to define newline character inside variable value
> and it is needed to allow multiple [one-line] metadata fields/tags. So
> I've used ability of OE to split list-typed variables (and re-joined
> splitted value with real newline character).
>
> The following changes since commit cab85fd0b481cdbf36477348de75352be3f38ca2:
>
>  gdk-pixbuf: Drop unneeded RPROVIDES (2012-05-12 11:23:27 +0100)
>
> up to 052d78ed7f986e76afb1ce6ef02e94ba1bbc9719:
>
>  package_{ipk, deb, rpm}.bbclass: support additional user-defined metadata (2012-05-13 14:51:26 +0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Leonid Borisenko (2):
>      package.bbclass: add getter of additional metadata
>      package_{ipk, deb, rpm}.bbclass: support additional user-defined metadata
>
>  meta/classes/package.bbclass     |   11 +++++++++++
>  meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass |    5 +++++
>  meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++++
>  meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass |    7 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>