[OE-core] opkg-0.2.2 release

[Paul Barker]

On 6 April 2014 13:08, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 22:18 +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just released opkg-0.2.2 with the following bugfixes (issue
>> numbers refer to the opkg issue list):
>>
>> - Fix '--force-reinstall' flag so that it acts as an upgrade rather than
>>   removing possibly critical packages before reinstall (issue 71)
>>
>> - Symlinks are now correctly removed during package uninstall (issue 91)
>>
>> - Fixed help and manual pages to reflect that shell globs not true regexps are
>>   accepted by opkg (issue 107)
>>
>> - The error message "no valid architecture" is no longer given when the
>>   architecture of a package is valid but incompatible with the current system.
>>
>> This is a bugfix only release with no other significant changes.
>>
>> I have also rebased the patches against opkg in oe-core against the
>> new release and checked that they still apply and that the result
>> builds with recent oe-core master. The result was tested on qemuarm by
>> running 'opkg update' against a package feed and installing a few new
>> packages.
>
> Thanks for checking this, it certainly helps and is appreciated!
>
>> Do we want to try to get this in to the upcoming Yocto release or
>> shall I delay the recipe upgrade until after the release? If you want
>> it for the upcoming release I'll re-run my tests locally just to be
>> sure it's looking good and then send a patch.
>
> We're about to roll -rc3 so this is getting late in the cycle to change
> the package manager. Having said that this sounds like bug fixes which
> would be nice to have.
>
> I think I'm leaning to not taking it right now as it is really too late
> but I'm open to other views on this...
>

I'll hold off for now then and send patches for oe-core after daisy
has been released.

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk