[OE-core] [PATCH] openssl: Fix symlink creation

[Mark Hatle]

On 4/20/17 7:37 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 04/19/2017 04:03 PM, David Vincent wrote:
>> The problem is that I must be able to manage the configuration of a machine
>> without physical intervention and only via package upgrades. A new
>> configuration can be applied simply by incrementing the PR of a configuration
>> package.
>>
>> But maybe this is a use case only needed by me and I should manage it in my
>> own specific layer ?
>>
>> Now that I think of it, I have the same kind of problem for all machine
>> specific configurations. For now, I just replace the PACKAGE_ARCH in my BSP
>> layer with a machine specific one to indicate that a package contains a
>> configuration valid only for a specific machine. Maybe, in a future release, it
>> should be desirable to create -conf packages based on the CONFFILES variable ?
>> I don't know if it's a good idea, but maybe I could bring that up on the
>> architecture mailing list ?
> 
> By all means please do so. Yocto lacks a solution for configuration 
> management, and this was discussed some time ago, although I cannot 
> anymore find where it happened. Mark, do you remember?
> 

I don't remember anything specific about the configuration management, just that
we discussed it.  Sorry.

I do know that this is an issue, and what we've said in the past was create a
.bbappend, set PACKAGE_ARCH to MACHINE_ARCH, add your machine specific
configuration to the package.

Down side of this is that if only the configuration file is different then you
now have a separate binary specific to that machine -- wasted space on a feed
server.

The other alternative I know of is to use the rootfs post scripting and replace
the conf files with the ones specific to that -build-.  This is similar to a
manufacturing step in a traditional ODM/OEM relationship.

At least with RPM, if the CONFFILES are set right, any configurations set this
way should NOT be overridden on a target upgrade.

(and any CONFFILE entries not set right are bugs IMHO...)

--Mark

> Alex
>