On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 18:12 +0800, Robert Yang wrote: > On 05/19/2016 05:45 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > To be really clear, OE-Core will not have a different signature > > policy > > on release branches since that differing policy would break user > > expectations and also wouldn't get tested apart from on the branch > > so > > we'd have less confidence it was working. > > Yes, I agree with this, I just used stable release as an example (big > changes won't happen on a stable release). > > > > > Users are free to set their own policies, the system was designed > > to do > > that. If WindRiver wants to have a much more permissive policy, I'm > > more than happy for them to do so. > > Thanks, frankly speaking, not only WindRiver wants this. After cloud > computing and virtualization gets hot, more and more users want to > customize their own images (for saving disk space, memory and > security > reason), oe/yocto is very good at customizing images, so more and > more people try to use it to build their own distros, where live > upgrades becomes very important.
I understand that. So are we going to get binary diff working? Its the only viable solution we have to the problem at the moment that I know of. Randomly hacking bits of the signature generation isn't going to help this unfortunately. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
