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

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

Koen, Is there some documentation available on how to properly generate
feeds by hand then? I whould like to do things "correctly", but references
to "munging" things by hand don't help me much at this point.

Thank you very much for any pointers.

On 3/1/07, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
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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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