[oe] [PATCH] angstrom-2010.x.conf: Prefer binutils 2.21 and uclibc-git

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/1/24 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
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> On 24-01-11 10:15, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
>> On 24-01-11 03:03, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>>> * no need to pin older udev with uclibc/git either
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
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>> NAK! binutils 2.21 introduces way too many problem at this moment, those
>> need to get solved before switching to it.
>>
>>> hmmm. Too vague a statement. Do you have list of issues somewhere I can look at
>>> it built the console-image x11-image images I tried and booted
>>> console-image too.
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> Try building anything that uses linux-omap-psp 2.6.32. You will run into
> the secure mode problem. That one is relatively easy to solve, but it
> needs to get solved *before* the switch, not after.
>
> But besided that, so a change needs to get RFC'd, tested and signed off
> by the angstrom maintainers before it gets pushed. It's a toolchain
> change and we take toolchains seriously.
>
> Waking up and seeing it applied without all that is *extremely*
> insulting. So I reverted it.
>

Pushing distro changes without review is against the policy:

>From http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Commit_Policy:

 * Distro config changes should be reviewed by the distro maintainers
   where known

Reveting changes from others is also against the policy:

http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Revert_Policy

(and imho equally bad (or insulting if you prefer))


Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

My two eurocents. Frans.