Could we offload the 1.0.2 supported recipes to something similar to meta-gplv2? Then the rest of the Yocto world can move on and those that need 1.0.x can seek it out.
-----Original Message----- From: openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Kanavin Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 2:34 PM To: Gary Thomas; openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [OE-core] [RFC PATCH 00/10] Add openssl 1.1 On 05/10/2017 09:56 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: > Why not do this in a "softer" way - make the new 1.1 package have the > obscured name (and not be preferred by default)? That way existing > uses of the older 1.0 package can continue but users can migrate to > 1.1 as they see fit? I have an answer which you might not particularly like. But here goes: What will actually happen is that no one will do anything to port their stuff until it's time to remove 1.0 because upstream has EOLd it. And then there'll still be complaints that more time is needed for the transition. I'd like to gently push people to plan this transition already now - and it's as gentle as it can be: if you pull from master and your things no longer build, make one simple change and they will. It's part and parcel of being on the bleeding edge, or rebasing to the new yocto release: not everything works exactly as before, and most components are newer and different and not always fully compatible. The other reason is that it's more work for me: I would have to update everything in oe-core to use the new recipe, instead of fixing just a few recipes that need to stay with 1.0. And then again the same thing will happen when 1.2 is out. Alex -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
