[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.

  just to be clear, if i can dredge up the recipe for rpm_4, i'm
assuming i'd want to specify that i want the "package-management"
image feature, as well as stating:

PREFERRED_VERSION_rpm = "4.%"
PREFERRED_VERSION_rpm-native = "4.%"

correct?

rday

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