[oe] Kernel recipes with broken PRs now

Tom Rini trini at embeddedalley.com
Sat May 30 22:28:10 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:16:29PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello Tom,
> 
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Tom Rini <trini at embeddedalley.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > Every machine might be able to make use of it, if it either depends on
> > unstable / in development programs or modules, OR it can use some
> > external kernel module (IMHO the right answer for this is versioned
> > dependancies, having the PR be increasing from 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 is
> > different than normal behavior).  This isn't always going to be an
> > option.
> 
> I agree that a versioned dependency would be the optimal solution for
> it, even better would be if we could use ABI versions for those
> depends (somewhat as done for X packages in Debian) however AFAIK
> bitbake doesn't support it yet, does it?

No, it does not.

-- 
Tom Rini




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