[oe] reverting some csets that kill package upgrade paths

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Fri Apr 24 19:48:02 UTC 2009


On 24-04-09 21:32, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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).
>






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