On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks <[email protected]> wrote: > Triggered by a short discussion on irc with woglinde, I would like to > suggest the following cleanup actions for glibc. > > 1. rewrite the recipes so they do not use patches in the dir of > another version. Better copy those. That makes clearer who uses what, > and avoids problems if a recipe is removed. > (btw if people are against having copies, I suggest to put common > patches in a dir whose name actually resembles it is for multiple > versions e.g. glibc-2.4-2.5 or so) > 2. remove some old recipes that are not pinned. Reason for removing > them is that it reduces the amount of work needed for step 1 > > currently we have: > > glibc-initial_2.10.1.bb > glibc-initial_2.2.5.bb > glibc-initial_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb > glibc-initial_2.3.2.bb > glibc-initial_2.3.6.bb > glibc-initial_2.4.bb > glibc-initial_2.5.bb > glibc-initial_2.6.1.bb > glibc-initial_2.7.bb > glibc-initial_2.9.bb > glibc-initial_cvs.bb > glibc_2.10.1.bb > glibc_2.2.5.bb > glibc_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb > glibc_2.3.2.bb > glibc_2.3.3+cvs20041128.bb > glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050221.bb > glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050420.bb > glibc_2.3.3.bb > glibc_2.3.5+cvs20050627.bb > glibc_2.3.6.bb > glibc_2.4.bb > glibc_2.5.bb > glibc_2.6.1.bb > glibc_2.7.bb > glibc_2.9.bb > glibc_cvs.bb > > suggestion is to remove the following versions because no one uses > them: (verified by grepping for them in conf/distro (with -r) > > glibc-initial_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb > glibc-initial_2.3.6.bb > glibc-initial_2.4.bb > glibc-initial_2.7.bb > glibc_2.3.2+cvs20040726.bb > glibc_2.3.3+cvs20041128.bb > glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050221.bb > glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050420.bb > glibc_2.3.6.bb > glibc_2.4.bb > glibc_2.7.bb > > I think the following are also obsolete, but I would like to get > advise for these > glibc-initial_cvs.bb > glibc_cvs.bb
yes they could be converted into _git > > What do people think about this? good plan. I think we should work towards reducing the recipes for some packages before they become unmanagable > > Frans > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
