[oe] Eliminating dependency race-conditions (was Re: [PATCH] net-snmp: disable libnl use)

[Koen Kooi]

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On 17-03-11 15:52, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On 17/03/2011 14:43, Esben Haabendal wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 11:18 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>>> I am still very much interested in discussing how to move this
>>>> technology from OE-lite to OE, but as it impacts all recipe metadata
>>>> (build dependencies has to be redefined), OE community at a large
>>> really
>>>> needs to value the benefits of solving this problem.
>>> The benefits of solving the problem are clearly very great, but I
>>> don't think OE itself is really in a position to embrace a "big bang"
>>> kind of change which would require redefining all the build
>>> dependencies.  I think we need to find a technological solution which
>>> will work with our current DEPENDS scheme. 
>> I know that this seems to be the general consensus in OE, but I do not
>> agree with it.  Sometimes architectural work requires working out the
>> details on a branch, and then when it is mostly done, do the "big bang"
>> which will then not really be that "big" anymore, as most of the issues
>> have been resolved.
>>
>> Is OE really in a position to permantly settle for something suboptimal
>> in such a central area?
>>
> I would suggest a branch of oe-core is the ideal place to do this work.
> It can be proved on oe-core then rolled out to meta-oe at a later date.

OE-core already features per-machine sysroots, so the main problem we
had, relocatability, has already been solved.

regards,

Koen
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