[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] kdbus: add git version

[Martin Jansa]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:09:05PM +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday 20 January 2014 17:57:27 Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 04:49:29PM +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > > On 20 January 2014 16:40, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > > > This builds the kernel portion of the kdbus implementation. Userspace
> > > > support needs systemd git and/or a special glib-2.0 branch.> 
> > > As awesome as kdbus could be it's very much fresh code, can this live
> > > outside of oe-core for now?
> > 
> > FWIW: it will be welcome with new systemd version in
> > meta-openembedded/meta-systemd
> > 
> > Only disadvantage of it will be that current DEFAULT_PREFERENCE behavior
> > doesn't allow to demote this "experimental" version. So people using
> > meta-systemd will always get this one unless they set PREFERRED_VERSION
> > to version in oe-core.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2964
> 
> Surely then the better answer would be to use a different layer, rather than 
> mixing all three of "legacy" RPROVIDES/RREPLACES/RCONFLICTS, additional 
> systemd support not yet integrated into OE-Core (WIP) and the bleeding edge 
> components we're now discussing?

In ideal world there should be some variable which says that the recipe
isn't preferred by default (unless explicitly asked for by P_V),
unfortunately DEFAULT_PREFERENCE is already taken.

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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