[oe] reverting some csets that kill package upgrade paths

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Apr 24 19:32:45 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:03:18PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:

> Upgrade paths are the foundation of package management, breaking them is  
> stabbing people using your binaries in the eye. Do you want to tell the  
> companies evaluating OE using .dev that they can't use the feature  
> anymore that drew them to OE, namely package management?

Red Herring.  No commerical device is going to point to some random feed
and just hope things work out fine.  No, they're going to point at their
supported feeds with updates they've tested and fixed any bugs that they
happened to have found (and pushed back because they're Good Guys).

-- 
Tom Rini




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