[oe] [PATCH][for-danny] guile: remove from meta-oe, there is newer version in oe-core

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Fri Apr 5 17:40:47 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On 5 April 2013 18:02, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> > bit confused about why this went in. danny is a stable branch, and
> > this is clearly not a bugfix. Did the existence of this recipe actually
> > cause a problem? This just caused a temporary build break for us due to
> > bbappending to a removed recipe. What exactly is the policy for meta-oe's
> > danny branch, if it's not "bugfixes only"?
>
> Yes, it was causing problems, as the guile-native 1.7 was preferred
> over guile 2.0.6's ability to build natively, which meant
> oe-core+meta-oe was unable to build grub.


Fair enough, but in the future please mention this sort of reasoning in the
commit messages, or at the very least the patch series emails. Knowing
*what* a commit does without *why* is much less useful.
-- 
Christopher Larson



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