[OE-core] Bug: 5089

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there was this change which also goes undocumented. Unfortunately, this is
> causing a lot of headache for me, but I expect that for others, too.
>
> I would like to propose the default kernel and module name from:
>
> uImage--3.2.1...
>
> to:
>
> uImage-3.2.1...
>
> This would avoid a lot of work for people. I have been trying to fix issues
> for one day due to this which is unfortunate.
>
> Also, the double dash on its looks silly IMO. It should be either '-0-' or
> '-'. I prefer the latter for compatibility reasons, although someone could
> argue about that the former is more readable.

Having maintained several systems when the default name was changed
to include PE, it didn't cause any problems here. Both dependent recipes
and scripts picked up the change easily and convenience symlinks made
the -- or -0- not something that needed to be dealt with.

So I'm ok with either, since -- going to - won't cause any problems in my
small part of the world, but it would be another change in the filenames
on top of when PE was added in :)

Obviously opinions and impacts of the change vary,

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> I heard Jama's opinion about it on IRC. I wonder what others think?
>
> Cheers,
> Laszlo
>
> PS.: Note, this is a different proposal to the documentation update.
>
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