[oe] [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Get rid of adhoc machine-specific messing with [linux-handhelds-2.6] kernel packages

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:22 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Richard Purdie schreef:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:03 +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> >>   No. My original mail said that it lead to broken snapshots released
> >> for hx4700, so I RFCed its removal for it, and for another PocketPC
> >> machine, htcuniversal, because I'm pretty sure it can live without it.
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> > Why were the snapshots broken? Was the problem not the total lack of a
> > zImage file. The fact that doesn't automatically deploy atm is actually
> > a bitbake trunk issue as it doesn't see any dependency to trigger that.
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> Worked around in the buildscripts by doing 'bitbake virtual/kernel' before the image.

the proper fix might be something like:

do_rootfs[recrdeptas] = "do_package_write do_deploy" in image.bbclass

but that could also blow up. I'll think a bit more about it :)

Cheers,

Richard