[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] do_rootfs: Added PACKAGE_FEED_URIS functionality

Andreas Oberritter obi at opendreambox.org
Tue Mar 4 11:02:41 UTC 2014


On 04.03.2014 11:29, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2014 09:45:09 David Nyström wrote:
>> On 2014-03-03 21:41, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>>> Does this resolve issue 5407?
>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5407
>>
>> This patch satisfies a small part of 5407, when this patch has been
>> reworked into a recipe and merged
> 
> I'm still confused as to why reworking this into a recipe is beneficial... ?

Because if the feed info is stored in a package, it can be updated
without reflashing.

We used this once to stop updates for selected machines from a shared
feed (due to memory constraints), but allowed other machines to continue
to receive updates by pointing them to a new feed location.

Regards,
Andreas



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