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

[Paul Menzel]

Am Donnerstag, den 08.09.2011, 23:33 +0100 schrieb Ilya Dmitrichenko:
> On 8 September 2011 10:24, Paul Menzel 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.

Please move/rename the recipe to 2.20.1a as done in the referenced link
and kind of in [1].

> 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 ...

Patches are welcome I guess. But you should check with the BitBake guys.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=f4faecdbd0b7c83e5787735ef1495a34aca861e4
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