[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] hddtemp: add from OE-Classic and update

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Sat Oct 20 13:31:57 UTC 2012


On Saturday 20 October 2012 10:13:50 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 October 2012 08:54:37 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> I think some patches could be cleaned up. Specially the generated
> >> files. Debian includes them in the patch and the packaging guide
> >> advices to do it (there're reasons for it) but OE regenerated those so
> >> I think it could be dropped.
> > 
> > I'd really rather not touch the content of the patches - hddtemp upstream
> > is dead, we're not intending to maintain our own fork and it's easier if
> > we can just pull in any new patches as-is from Debian or Fedora (with
> > source information, which I did add to the top of each patch).
> 
> Right but including generated files is waste of space, unpack time and
> patching time. We're rewrite those in do_configure.

So leaving aside the tiny amount of time/space we're talking about for a 
second, which files are you referring to exactly?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre




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