[oe] Proposal: Creating meta-networking

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 05:15:33PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2012 18:03:08 Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Op 13 jul. 2012, om 17:58 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:
> > > On Thursday 12 July 2012 15:57:52 Joe MacDonald wrote:
> > >> Just to make sure we're got it in context, though, the open points were:
> > >>   - tcpdump listed in meta-oe's recipes-core/tasks/task-cli-tools,
> > >>   
> > >>     under RDEPENDS_${PN}-debug.
> > > 
> > > Koen, any suggestions? This task has pretty random contents - some of it
> > > is even hardware-specific. Do we really need to keep this together?
> > 
> > That's an SHR recipe, you'd have to ask Martin Jansa.
> 
> Ultimately we should not have anything distro-specific in meta-oe at all, which 
> means we all ought to have a say in its contents - otherwise it belongs in the 
> distro layer.

It was added from oe-core, because we (SHR) were still using it in our
images/tasks. If we're the only one user I don't mind moving it to our
distro layer or reworking it to something usefull for other people too.

> Martin, do you have any objection to this task recipe being reworked in the 
> face of the proposal to split tcpdump (and other networking-related recipes) 
> out to meta-networking?

Not at all.. I'll just add meta-networking to our layers setup..

> > The biggest blocker right now is where meta-networking is going to be
> > hosted, the layers in the meta-openembedded repo can only depend on oe-core
> > and bitbake, no other external layers.
> 
> I'll leave this for Joe to comment on.

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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