[oe] OE Staging ABI Change Warning

[Koen Kooi]

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Holger Freyther schreef:
| On Monday 03 March 2008 10:37:59 Richard Purdie wrote:

|> Having looked at some old parts of the metadata when fixing up staging
|> references, we already have a ton of broken .bb files :(. I was really
|> disappointed with the quality in some areas and I honestly don't know
|> what to do about this.
|
| There is proposal to start with an empty repository and move things over,
| testing and compiling world, clean up weekends.... more review on
checking
| things in.

The previous consensus to that proposal was "we should be able to do
cleanups in-place". I still think we should start such a branch where we
can do the clean up while retaining the history. Those cleanups would
consist of:

a) basic janitorial stuff:

* running the recipe through oe-stylize.py and fix accordingly
* document patches (origin, upstream status, etc)
* restucrure FILESDIR to avoid duplicate files (e.g. files/foo.patch
bar-1.0/foo.patch, etc)

b) updating to OE standards

* Replace custom methods with standards ones where appropriate (e.g.
do_stage() -> autotools_stage_all
* document remaining custom methods (e.g. do_configure_append sed magic)
* sanitize PACKAGES and FILES
* sanitize overrides (e.g. fix all the CONFFILES_nylon stuff)

c) unit testing

* compile for different archs
* run through insane

Regardless if we create a branch for that or not, we should declare a
freeze for e.g. 3 months where only bugfixes and cleanups are allowed to
be checked in.

regards,

Koen
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