Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 13:17 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > (And RedHat based linux distributions don't have any concept of alternatives. True...until about 10 years ago. Sun Jan 27 2002 Erik Troan - reimplemented update-alternatives as just alternatives http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitwe

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-04 Thread Steffen Sledz
On 03.04.2012 20:17, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 4/3/12 1:07 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: > ... > (And RedHat based linux distributions don't have any concept of alternatives. > They generally decide which binary package will provide the functionality > and that is the defacto standard for a given release. O

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Hatle
On 4/3/12 1:21 PM, Chris Larson wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Mark Hatle wrote: On 4/3/12 1:07 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: On 2012-04-03 12:03, Mark Hatle wrote: On 4/3/12 12:52 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? When I asked this p

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Gary Thomas
On 2012-04-03 12:17, Mark Hatle wrote: On 4/3/12 1:07 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: On 2012-04-03 12:03, Mark Hatle wrote: On 4/3/12 12:52 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? When I asked this previously, I was told that rpm was used because it has s

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Larson
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 4/3/12 1:07 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: >> >> On 2012-04-03 12:03, Mark Hatle wrote: >>> >>> On 4/3/12 12:52 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? When I asked this previously, I was

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Hatle
On 4/3/12 1:07 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: On 2012-04-03 12:03, Mark Hatle wrote: On 4/3/12 12:52 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? When I asked this previously, I was told that rpm was used because it has superior dependency tracking. Fair enough

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Gary Thomas
On 2012-04-03 12:03, Mark Hatle wrote: On 4/3/12 12:52 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? When I asked this previously, I was told that rpm was used because it has superior dependency tracking. Fair enough (I guess), but then why is opkg requir

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 11:52:07 Gary Thomas wrote: > Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? > When I asked this previously, I was told that rpm was used because > it has superior dependency tracking. Fair enough (I guess), but > then why is opkg required if I build an im

Re: [OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Hatle
On 4/3/12 12:52 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? When I asked this previously, I was told that rpm was used because it has superior dependency tracking. Fair enough (I guess), but then why is opkg required if I build an image using PACKAG

[OE-core] Schizophrenic package management

2012-04-03 Thread Gary Thomas
Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images? When I asked this previously, I was told that rpm was used because it has superior dependency tracking. Fair enough (I guess), but then why is opkg required if I build an image using PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm" --