[oe] [PATCH] binutils-2.20.1: fix checksums

[Ilya Dmitrichenko]

On 8 September 2011 10:24, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> thank you for your patch. Unfortunately we cannot apply it as is. Please
> read [1] for the reason.
>
> [1] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-September/034885.html
>

The only work around that I see is to write a new bb recipe file for
2.20.1a, and update the old
recipe with SRC_URI to point to a mirror which holds that old tarball.
Please advise on how
you usually would handle these issues, cause the above solution is not
reliable either.

I agree that it's a bit tricky, though if bitbake been told that 1.2.3
and 1.2.3a are equivalents,
it would be quite nice :) Of course different projects have their own
versioning schemes, and
often  it implies kaos, however I presume that gnu toolchain team has
a very clear pattern
and that could be relied upon and implemented in the .inc files.
Something like VERSION_SUFFIX_IGNORE=$regex ...

Cheers,
-- 
Ilya