[OE-core] trying to reconcile OE builds with rpm4-format rpm files built on centos 6

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Burton, Ross wrote:

>
> On 21 April 2016 at 13:06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>         next bit of muttering is, "can we downgrade the OE build to use
>       rpm4-format packages?", which is not a path down which i want to walk.
>
>
> Assuming that the obviously correct option of "build the packages
> inside OE" really is being written off for mysterious reasons, rpm4
> was only just removed from oe-core (though depending on what
> releases you're using you may have never noticed it be added and
> removed again).  So you could just recover that from history
> (oe-core a6e7a86f1635be9a688c56c25e9d215ea4d2cc84 removed it) and
> fix it up.

  under the circumstances, that sounds like the simplest approach.
would we be losing any significant functionality downgrading to rpm4?
it's not my first choice, but if all that's required is to do basic
installs and upgrades, i suspect it will work just fine.

rday

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