[oe] [RFC] Handling of virtual/* namespace in packages

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 16:53 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Marcin Juszkiewicz schreef:
> > In OpenedHand we got hit by virtual/update-alternatives and packaging. 
> > Poky contains two providers for virtual/u-a:
> > 
> > 1. update-alternatives-cworth
> > 2. update-alternatives-dpkg
> > 
> > First one comes from IPKG source and is written in pure shell. Second one 
> > is in Perl so it fetch too much to be usable.
> > 
> > The problem comes when you build both of them (it happens on our 
> > autobuilder due to 'world' build) - package manager (ipkg) selects random 
> > one - in our case it is always 'update-alternatives-dpkg' so generated 
> > rootfs is too big to be usable.
> 
> Heh, I asked about that a while back and was told "everything works in poky". So much for
> 'working' ;)

Well, it did. Nothing showed any errors and it all seemed to work until
I changed some things... ;-)

Cheers,

Richard