[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] Attempt to unify predefined package feed handling

[Paul Barker]

On 1 March 2014 18:10, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:59 PM, David Nyström <david.c.nystrom at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2014-02-27 16:18, Laurentiu Palcu wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:35:50PM +0100, David Nyström wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-02-27 15:24, Laurentiu Palcu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>
>>>>> My comments/questions below.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your detailed comments on the RFC.
>>>> I will return with V2, where your comments are addressed when the
>>>> general approach is Acked.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think about the general approach ?
>>>
>>> I think the approach is ok. I don't know a simpler way than this to add
>>> package feeds into the image.
>>
>>
>> OK, there seems to be no screaming objections from other parties either.
>>
>> I'll resend v2
>
>
> I understand why you are adding this here but I think it'd be good to the
> settings to be put in a package so in a product we may add extra
> repositories updating the package.
>
> I am trying to think now how this could be done (or optionally done).
>
> What you think?

+1

I'd rather have '/etc/opkg/base-feeds.conf' (for example) generated
and placed into a package which is then installed on the rootfs. That
would make it easy to distribute an update to that in the future. I'm
not sure how difficult/easy that would be.

>
> Other point, PACKAGE_FEED_URIS could be change to PACKAGE_FEED_URI as it
> matches SRC_URI for example.
>

+1

Thanks,

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Paul Barker

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