[OE-core] [PATCH] Revert "kmod: Use base_libdir for installing libkmod"

[Koen Kooi]

Op 18 mei 2012, om 08:19 heeft Koen Kooi het volgende geschreven:

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> Op 17 mei 2012, om 23:02 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
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>> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 22:44 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Op 17 mei 2012 om 22:29 heeft Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> het volgende geschreven:
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>>>> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 13:54 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>>>> The commit breaks pkgconfig and after discussing it with the kmod and udev maintainers the conclusion was reached that putting the libraries in /lib instead of /usr/lib is not supported.
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>>>>>> This reverts commit 6b74f2461735272bd950a4f060dab6e778a36f92.
>>>>> 
>>>>> while this is what I had initially it doesn't go well with kmod living in
>>>>> /sbin and accessing libraries from /usr due to our QA checks although
>>>>> I am all for simplifying it where we don't make this check at all.
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>>>> I've had requests for it along with a commitment to fix it and patches.
>>>> If we decide we don't want this, fine and that will be the case if
>>>> patches are not forthcoming to fix the QA issues. I don't think we've
>>>> reached that point at this with that yet.
>>>> 
>>>> I've decided to accept this patch and "unbreak" meta-oe/udev at the
>>>> expense of screwing up OE-Core. I am however still deeply unhappy people
>>>> are trying to bypass OE-Core this way and then "blackmail" OE-Core using
>>>> breaking meta-oe as a reason. The whole systemd thing has been badly
>>>> handled and needs to get fixed properly.
>>> 
>>> What does systemd have to do with this?
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>> Why does meta-oe has its own udev recipe?
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> Because it's too much trouble to get the updated recipe into oe-core

And I admit that is not necessarily a bad thing. I would go as far as saying that for recipes like udev it's a good thing. OE-core has seen too many upgrades for the sake of upgrades that were only build tested.