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

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

Has it got rejected, applied, forgotten or what?

I think it would make sense to support it. There was just one answer
asking if RDEPENDS won't be enough and Ive had good point in my
opinion. It's a shame that patch, even after few pings, goes without
proper reply...

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ive Found <ive.found at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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(+)
> >

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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