[OE-core] anyone interested in CentOS 5 fixes for dpkg-native?

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Tue Jan 8 20:44:50 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Donn Seeley <donn.seeley at windriver.com> wrote:
> We recently tried to build using 'PACKAGE_CLASSES = package_deb' and
> found that our ancient CentOS 5 build VMs couldn't compile and link
> dpkg-native.  (We support CentOS 5 for very conservative customers, so
> we run test builds with it regularly.)
>
> Given that package_deb isn't used frequently and that CentOS 5 is so
> old, I thought that I would ask first before submitting fixes for that
> configuration.  Do we want the patches in oe-core?

I vote yes, additionally these patches don't look too complex or intrusive.

-M




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