[poky] 3 versions of elfutils recipes in the poky master tree

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Feb 2 03:23:19 PST 2011


On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 19:24 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 2/1/11 7:15 PM, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> > elfutils_0.148.bb 
> > 
> >                 this is the default currently being used.
> > 
> >                 LICENSE = "GPLv2 with exceptions"
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > elfutils_0.108.bb 
> > 
> >                 not being used currently
> > 
> >                 does not have LIC_CHKSUM_FILES
> > 
> >                 also compile fails
> > 
> >                 LICENSE = "OSL & GPLv2"
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > elfutils_0.89.bb
> > 
> >                 fetch fails
> > 
> >                 LICENSE = "OSL"
> > 
> 
> At one time the older versions were required for specific implementations of
> prelink and RPM.  This is no longer true.  I would suggest you remove the older
> versions, and as long as RPM and prelink continue to work (as expected), we're good.

I agree, we don't need those older versions any more as long as prelink,
rpm and other utils work correctly. I've pushed a patch into master
removing the older ones.

Cheers,

Richard





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