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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Saturday 01 March 2014 18:21:59 Paul Barker wrote:
> 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.

The only problem with this is you then can't have your feeds different per 
image.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre