[OE-core] [PATCH 0/5] Enable VPN support in ConnMan

[Paul Eggleton]

On Sunday 12 May 2013 19:54:50 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 08:40 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> > On 05/12/2013 06:27 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > I think so, it'd be good to have it in oe-core and allow use of vpn :)
> > 
> > I would like to see what the full dependency set looks like for these,
> > clearly there is the vpnc, openvpn, l2tp and pptp recipes, but what else
> > and what licenses are they under.
> 
> I don't think we necessarily want openvpn, l2tpd and suchlike in
> oe-core.  None of those things seem very "core" to me (in an embedded
> context) and testing them seems like it would be a bit of a challenge.

I agree, these don't belong in OE-Core. We already have them in meta-
networking.

> Equally, we certainly don't want to have dependencies in oe-core
> pointing to packages in meta-oe or any other layer, since this would
> make it impossible to test oe-core in isolation.  So I would be inclined
> to say that the right way to deal with this is for those connman bits to
> go in a .bbappend which lives in the same layer as the recipes in
> question.

That doesn't work well for software layers - it is not a good thing for 
various recipes to get rebuilt just because you add meta-oe to your 
configuration for example.

The protocol we've established is to add PACKAGECONFIG options to enable the 
dependencies but have them disabled by default; these can be enabled as 
desired in distro or local configuration when the layer satisfying the 
dependency is also enabled.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre