[oe] [RFC] adding CONFLICTS

[Koen Kooi]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Graeme Gregory schreef:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:16:27 -0600
> David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A good way to look at this issue is to study how Seth Vidal sovled the
>> issue in YUM, Fedora's updater.  It is written in python, so easy for
>> BitBake developers to understand.
>>
>> It seems that it would add a good deal of complexity to the current
>> design of bitbake.
>>
>> Although useful this might be an idea for bitbake 2.0
>>
> We already have fully working package Conflicts: working.
> 
> This is talking about staging conflicts. Or in otherwords
> a work around until package staging works fully including
> our already complete package conflicts handling.

It goes even a bit deeper as staging, since you want certain packages to
not get build at all. With packaged staging you can still build a feed
that is internally inconsistant, which is what the CONFLICTS is trying
to solve.

regards,

Koen


- --
koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl will go go away in december 2007, please
use k.kooi at student.utwente.nl instead.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFHPW2YMkyGM64RGpERAm7jAKCQ2M4fjfI/eHU9RPc95RJB04YhSgCfejgP
v4/5OHK/0s0Pu8iwij54GIM=
=fUV2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----