[oe] packaging question

[Dmitry]

2008/11/29 Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:17:37 +0000 (UTC)
> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> To make suspend work on tosa w/o problems, I have to put several
>> files into apm hooks directories. The question is: into which OE
>> package should I put them?
>
> This was discussed well once - please put all machine- and device-
> specific hacks and workarounds into separate package(s), to not
> contaminate the main device-independent package with them, which would
> either cast the main package machine-specific (QA nightmare), or affect
> other devices unexpectedly (even bigger QA nightmare). There're few
> examples of this idea already, see apm-wifi-suspendfix,
> bluez-dtl1-workaround packages.
>
> If such a package is machine specific, it's obvious where it should go
> - into MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS. If it's however a workaround for
> a particular device, especially pluggable, it makes sense to make it
> more flexible and automagical and associate with the corresponding
> kernel driver. See kernel.bbclass for how the packages above are
> handled.

Should I also bump PR of task-base after changing MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS?

>
>>
>> --
>> With best wishes
>> Dmitry
>
> []
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Paul                          mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com
>



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With best wishes
Dmitry