[oe] [oe-commits] org.oe.dev rootfs_ipk: as per OE policy: remove feed management tools

[Koen Kooi]

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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> koen commit wrote:
>> rootfs_ipk: as per OE policy: remove feed management tools
> 
> Guys, please don't play games. Since it is a handy feature indeed,
> can we perhaps agree on making this a seperate bbclass to keep both of
> you satisfied?

All feed management was removed a long time ago from OE because

a) it's out of scope
b) can't be done right in an automated fashion

And after discovering some bugs in ipkg-utils a while ago it seems you have to manually
munge the Packages file to get something that ipkg will handle correctly when upgrading stuff.

So whichever way you look at it it's going to add broken behaviour to OE. I don't want to
explain to users why their 'feeds' don't work because they disabled common sense because
'OE generated it'.

But but but but but... OE generates feeds now as well!! Right, deploy/ipk contains
subdirectories people could abuse as feeds if they want, but I wouldn't recommend it.

So *if* people *need* OE to generate feeds, there you have them. However, I strongly
oppose adding know broken behaviour to satisfy lazy people.

regards,

Koen

PS: find */ -name  "*.ipk" -exec mv  '{}'  ./ \;


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