[oe] [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Using ${PR} instead of ${DATETIME} in deployed kernel image filename

[Koen Kooi]

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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>> Hello openembedded-devel,
> 
>>   I already mentioned this in
>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2007-December/003695.html , here's specific RFC:
>> I'd like to propose using the following filename pattern for deployed
>> kernel images: "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${PV}-${PR}-${MACHINE}", instead
>> of "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${PV}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}". This will
>> ensure that kernels built from the same recipe are named consistently,
>> and thus will allow users and developers track kernels easier. Also,
>> any change to build configuration should be accompanied by recipe PR
>> bump, so new kernel file will be produces.
> 
> +1. Good thing is it forces you to update PR, bad thing is it forces
> you to update PR, especially when you are trying out multiple
> defconfigs. But I guess in that case you probably use devshell or an
> out-of-OE-tree kernel.
> 
>>   So:
> 
>> 1. Does anybody see something grossly wrong with this scheme?
>> 2. Otherwise, I'm going to change this for linux-handhelds-2.6, and
>> would like to encourage maintainers of the other kernel recipes to do
>> the same.
> 
> Isn't it already deployed in linux.inc? I remember I had to catch up
> linux-openmoko.inc because of that change.

It is. Remaining 'offenders' are linux-hh and linux-rp, and maybe some
other kernel recipes I never look at.

regards,

Koen

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