[oe] packaging question

[Koen Kooi]

On 03-12-08 01:11, Dmitry wrote:
> 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?

and task-boot where appropriate.

regards,

Koen


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