[oe] FILE_PR and my requirements Re: Some open issues

[Holger Freyther]

On Saturday 18 October 2008 19:18:57 Richard Purdie wrote:

> I talked with Holger on irc about this. The need is primarily to have a
> way of regenerating a full set of packages after some package abi
> change. I raised the idea of using DISTRO_PR in a somewhat similar way
> to SANITY_ABI where if it changes the user is warned about it and then
> can handle as they see fit. DISTRO_PR is appended to the PR values at
> package generation time if set. For autobuilders this wouldn't be good
> so for those cases I'm suggesting they incorporate DISTRO_PR into the
> TMPDIR value their autobuilder uses.

There are some things we agree on and some things that we need to find 
agreement on. But with the proposed changes we get to a point where we can 
discuss. My fast commit was clearly against the policies and I try to do 
better.


>
> Yes, this kind of change may break some scripts out there. That is
> unfortunate but we should use this opportunity to improve the scripts to
> use commands like "bitbake -e | grep ^DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGES" and similar to
> find things rather than making assumptions about path layout.

Yes, autobuilders and script writers are encouraged to use bitbake to get the 
paths instead of guessing where files are located.


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