On Monday 14 July 2014 06:31:18 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Friday 11 July 2014 20:39:04 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> > >
> > > <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > > > a number of the current packagegroup recipe files still have
> > > >
> > > > backward compatibility support for the old "task-core" names, seems
> > > > like that's been there for well over a year, would it be safe to
> > > > finally just toss that? seems like everyone's had enough time to make
> > > > the move to the new names, and it would be clearer to not confuse the
> > > > proper use of the word "task" these days.
> > >
> > > I agree; however this question should also be send to oe-core mailing
> > > list (added in Cc)
> >
> > I agree as well; these should go. I know there are some who want to
> > keep these indefinitely for upgrade purposes, but I think there's a
> > limit to how long they should stay around in OE-Core. They can
> > always be preserved in bbappends for those that do want to keep
> > them.
>
> getting rid of all that "task-core" stuff in packagegroups looks
> pretty easy, except for this snippet in
> packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb:
>
> packages = d.getVar("PACKAGES", True).split()
> for pkg in packages:
> if pkg.endswith('-dev'):
> mapped = namemap.get(pkg[:-4], None)
> if mapped:
> mapped += '-dev'
> elif pkg.endswith('-dbg'):
> mapped = namemap.get(pkg[:-4], None)
> if mapped:
> mapped += '-dbg'
> else:
> mapped = namemap.get(pkg, None)
>
> if mapped:
> oldtaskname = mapped.replace("packagegroup-core", "task-core")
> mapstr = " %s %s" % (mapped, oldtaskname)
> d.appendVar("RPROVIDES_%s" % pkg, mapstr)
> d.appendVar("RREPLACES_%s" % pkg, mapstr)
> d.appendVar("RCONFLICTS_%s" % pkg, mapstr)
> }
>
> would one simply delete that last "if mapped:" conditional in its
> entirety? or what?
Well the packagegroup-core-full-cmdline rename was relatively recent (March),
so it would be a bit early to remove that as well. You'd need to cut out just
the "oldtaskname" (and corresponding "%s") bit.
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
--
_______________________________________________
Openembedded-core mailing list
Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
