Op 10 jun 2011, om 18:33 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 23:26 -0700, Saul Wold wrote: >> Kang Kai (1): >> ghostscript: update SRC_URI >> >> Nitin A Kamble (1): >> gcc: rebase the patch to avoid patch rejection > > This was a disaster. It breaks the build and is huge, thereby clogging > up the source control system web interface etc. > > I applied it, then had to revert it. Please test things like this more > carefully in future. > > I also think we need to put these kind of patches on the website or in a > repo, we shouldn't be carrying them around in the main repo.
Having patches external to the layer is a recipe for failure, if you excude the pun. I've had to deal with patches disappearing/changing/etc a lot during the past months in the .dev world and I don't look forward to continuing those mistakes in the oe-core world. regards, Koen _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
