[OE-core] PRServer's problem

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 18:12 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> On 05/19/2016 05:45 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > To be really clear, OE-Core will not have a different signature
> > policy
> > on release branches since that differing policy would break user
> > expectations and also wouldn't get tested apart from on the branch
> > so
> > we'd have less confidence it was working.
> 
> Yes, I agree with this, I just used stable release as an example (big
> changes won't happen on a stable release).
> 
> > 
> > Users are free to set their own policies, the system was designed
> > to do
> > that. If WindRiver wants to have a much more permissive policy, I'm
> > more than happy for them to do so.
> 
> Thanks, frankly speaking, not only WindRiver wants this. After cloud
> computing and virtualization gets hot, more and more users want to
> customize their own images (for saving disk space, memory and
> security
> reason), oe/yocto is very good at customizing images, so more and
> more people try to use it to build their own distros, where live
> upgrades becomes very important.

I understand that. So are we going to get binary diff working? Its the
only viable solution we have to the problem at the moment that I know
of. Randomly hacking bits of the signature generation isn't going to
help this unfortunately.

Cheers,

Richard