[oe] [PATCH] Epoch support for bitbake

[Rod Whitby]

Holger Freyther wrote:
> 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.
> 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.

So does that mean that changing OE.dev to _rely_ on epoch support should
be held off until that happens?

-- Rod