[oe] [RFC} cleanup glibc

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Triggered by a short discussion on irc with woglinde, I would like to
> suggest the following cleanup actions for glibc.
>
> 1. rewrite the recipes so they do not use patches in the dir of
> another version. Better copy those. That makes clearer who uses what,
> and avoids problems if a recipe is removed.
> (btw if people are against having copies, I suggest to put common
> patches in a dir whose name actually resembles it is for multiple
> versions e.g. glibc-2.4-2.5 or so)
> 2. remove some old recipes that are not pinned. Reason for removing
> them is that it reduces the amount of work needed for step 1
>
> currently we have:
>
> glibc-initial_2.10.1.bb
> glibc-initial_2.2.5.bb
> glibc-initial_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb
> glibc-initial_2.3.2.bb
> glibc-initial_2.3.6.bb
> glibc-initial_2.4.bb
> glibc-initial_2.5.bb
> glibc-initial_2.6.1.bb
> glibc-initial_2.7.bb
> glibc-initial_2.9.bb
> glibc-initial_cvs.bb
> glibc_2.10.1.bb
> glibc_2.2.5.bb
> glibc_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb
> glibc_2.3.2.bb
> glibc_2.3.3+cvs20041128.bb
> glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050221.bb
> glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050420.bb
> glibc_2.3.3.bb
> glibc_2.3.5+cvs20050627.bb
> glibc_2.3.6.bb
> glibc_2.4.bb
> glibc_2.5.bb
> glibc_2.6.1.bb
> glibc_2.7.bb
> glibc_2.9.bb
> glibc_cvs.bb
>
> suggestion is to remove the following versions because no one uses
> them: (verified by grepping for them in conf/distro (with -r)
>
> glibc-initial_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb
> glibc-initial_2.3.6.bb
> glibc-initial_2.4.bb
> glibc-initial_2.7.bb
> glibc_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb
> glibc_2.3.3+cvs20041128.bb
> glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050221.bb
> glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050420.bb
> glibc_2.3.6.bb
> glibc_2.4.bb
> glibc_2.7.bb
>
> I think the following are also obsolete, but I would like to get
> advise for these
> glibc-initial_cvs.bb
> glibc_cvs.bb

yes they could be converted into _git

>
> What do people think about this?

good plan. I think we should work towards reducing
the recipes for some packages before they become
unmanagable

>
> Frans
>
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