On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:21 AM Martin Jansa <martin.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Then I believe layer index should be fixed to support longer values, there > are layers which are compatible with multiple releases and it works fine with > bitbake/oe-core, layer index parsing shouldn't be more strict than the > mechanism which is using these variables. > Hi, I agree with Martin, we have examples of compatibility since sumo, we will surely split but this is an unreasonable limit. A.A.
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:26 AM Kai <kai.k...@windriver.com> wrote: >> >> On 6/4/21 4:52 PM, Martin Jansa wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 3:44 AM kai <kai.k...@windriver.com> wrote: >>> >>> From: Kai Kang <kai.k...@windriver.com> >>> >>> Set LAYERSERIES_COMPAT with 'honister' which align with oe-core. >>> >> >> I think it's bad practice to claim honister support this early in its >> development cycle. It won't happen with well-maintained layers like meta-oe, >> but if some less frequently updated layer sets the compatibility with >> honister now and then doesn't get necessary updates to stay compatible with >> honister in next 4 months, then whole purpose of LAYERSERIES_COMPAT will get >> broken just by claiming the compatibility too soon (without even knowing >> what final honister will contain). >> >> Changing it after release freeze in oe-core seems much better time to do it. >> >> The same does apply on the meta-qt5 PR you've sent today >> https://github.com/meta-qt5/meta-qt5/pull/416/commits >> >> Cheers, >> >> Got it. Thanks very much. >> >> I've comment on the meta-qt5 PR that too long strings in LAYERSERIES_COMPAT >> will cause layer index complains: >> >> WARNING: YPCompatibleVersion.name: dunfell gatesgarth hardknott: length 28 >> exceeds maximum (25), truncating >> >> So what is policy to keep old codenames in LAYERSERIES_COMPAT? Is that ok >> to keep latest 2(hardknott and honister), please? >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Kai Kang >> Wind River Linux > > > >
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