[oe] [oe-commits] Chris Larson : base.bbclass:

[Chris Larson]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz
> <marcin at juszkiewicz.com.pl> wrote:
>>
>> Why those changes were not sent for review to ML? They touched core of
>> system so should be sent first. Especially when they broke many recipes
>> and added extra work for other developers.
>>
>> Now we can not use wildcards in SRC_URI which broke many recipes
>> (alsa-state for example) which is totally wrong. I hope that fix for it
>> is on a way - otherwise I would vote for reverting those changes.
>
> You're welcome to revert them if you like.  I'm fine using my heavily
> patched local branch if that's the way you'd prefer it.  FILESDIR was
> never intended to stick around this long.  It was a remnant of the way
> things were done before FILESPATH was introduced, and the wildcards in
> file:// urls were never intended to function, either, that only worked
> as a side effect of the way do_unpack was implemented, in shell.
>
> Rest assured, I'll be sure to send every single patch to the list in
> the future, even though It's highly unlikely that you would've spotted
> the wildcards bug via inspection.

I just realized the tone of the previous email probably made it sound
unapologetic, but that wasn't intended.  I do apologize, I'd done a
fair number of test builds, but apparently with the wrong combination
of packages.  It won't happen again.
-- 
Chris Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
clarson at mvista dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Software Engineer
MontaVista Software, Inc.