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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 04 March 2014 12:02:41 Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> 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.

I see - makes sense.

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre