[oe] [PATCH] Epoch support for bitbake

[Holger Freyther]

Am 20.03.2007 um 01:24 schrieb Rod Whitby:

> Richard Purdie wrote:
>> Thanks for this, I just checked it in unchanged to bitbake trunk
>> (1.9.x). If people test it and are happy, I'm happy for it to be
>> backported for 1.8.2 too, at which point OE.dev can maybe start to  
>> rely
>> upon it.
>
> Dunno whether this is important or not, but OpenMoko (which is now  
> using
> svn overlaying OE .dev, not a frozen OE version) uses bitbake 1.6.x  
> with
> custom svnnow patches.
>
> So OE.dev starting to rely on epoch support may (I dunno, just asking
> the experts) break OpenMoko until they port their svnnow patches to  
> 1.8
> and move everyone building openmoko from the official openmoko svn/OE
> distro (not the OE.dev-only "openmoko" distro) over to that.

Hi Rod,

I assume that henryk will port his work to bitbake trunk/1.8 and it  
is highly likely (actually pretty obvious) that we will accept the  
patch. And at this point it is a potential backporting candidate for  
1.8.2.

z.