[oe] u-boot-utils badness

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/7/16 Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>

> On 07/15/2010 02:41 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>
>> Incidentally I stumbled upon u-boot-utils.
>> This recipe did not seem too good.
>>
>> We only have a version for 1.2.
>> Guess u-boot tools do not change that much, but still it seems somewhat
>> odd.
>>
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>> How to deal with this???
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> Why not just leave it alone? It is entirely possible the recipe is being
> used soley to generate mkimage for machines that have working u-boots from
> another source.
>
> Much better to have a u-boot recipe that generates the tools than have
> everyone who just needs mkimage hacking together a different recipe to get
> it.
>
> Philip
>
>
As you wish :-)

Note that u-boot-tools not only provides mkimage but also things like fw_env
Also, to further mess up things: we also have u-boot-mkimage_1.3.2.bb
There seems to be room for some quality improvement.
Oh well....

Frans