[oe] [meta-oe][dizzy]Update PyQt and related recipes

[Philip Balister]

On 03/02/2015 03:56 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>> On 02/27/2015 04:37 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>>>> On 02/27/2015 12:31 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 04:46:48PM -0800, Philip Balister wrote:
>>>>>> Please pull these three patches into meta-oe/dizzy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-oe/pull/19
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These lead to a working PyQt4, which will reduce the number of questions
>>>>>> I get about gnuradio-companion not working on dizzy.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if we should do upgrades in release branch which should
>>>>> receive only bug fixes, but I'll let daisy maintainers to decide.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, what is in dizzy doesn't work for anyone. To make it work, we
>>>> need to upgrade to pickup some changes that made pyqt easier to cross
>>>> compile.
>>>
>>> Yes, this is why I support this update however we need to fix the sip
>>> upgrade path.
>>>
>>
>> What's wrong with the sip update path? Originally, there was only a
>> recipe for sip-native, this patch replaces the sip-native recipe with
>> one that works for native and target.
> 
> Upgrade path. python-sip died no?
> 

Ah yes. python-sip was built from the sip package. The new sip recipe
handles the building and installation of the python bits.

How do we tell package manages what happened? (Yes I suck at packaging)

In reality, I doubt many people installed python-sip.

Philip