[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] vte: bring back old version to support xfce4-terminal

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 17 June 2016 at 16:33, Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
wrote:

> On June 16, 2016 18:10:09 Andre McCurdy wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > > On 16 June 2016 at 21:49, Mark Asselstine <
> mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> While waiting to hear back about my inquiry I did take some
> > >> time to put together this patch that allows things that
> > >> require the older vte to continue to build. Since xfce4-terminal
> > >> lives in meta-openembedded this might make more sense to carry
> > >> over there. I am sure folks will have an opinion so sending this
> > >> out as an RFC.
> > >
> > > That's certainly a good argument for putting the old vte in meta-oe.
> >
> > The meta-oe layers generally have a higher priority than oe-core, so
> > having an older version in meta-oe and a newer version in oe-core can
> > lead to unexpected results.
>
> This should not be an issue. My change has the old recipe renamed with the
> API
> version so the old version becomes referenced by 'vte-0.0' (per the commit
> log
> the 0.0 is consistent with the API versioning upstream). So recipes which
> require the old version, like xfce4-terminal, have to have their DEPENDS
> adjusted accordingly. There should be no surprises.
>
> I will have a closer look today to ensure nothing in oe-core is requiring
> the
> old version and if not I will prepare a patch for meta-oe since that seems
> to
> be the general agreement for a home for this. I need to do some further
> checks
> and runtime tests but I will get this out shortly. In the meantime anyone
> else
> running in to the build failure can exploit the RFC patch.


Thanks Mark. I can confirm that nothing in oe-core needs the old vte.

As a sidenote in case you're looking at the vte users in oe-core: I notice
I didn't include a  patch for qemu yet. The situation there is that our
qemu version works fine with the new vte but might still need a small
configure.ac patch in addition to updated PACKAGECONFIG line. I'll include
this in my next patchset.

- Jussi


Mark
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> > > Ross
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