[yocto] A question about PACKAGE_ARCH renaming

[Hatle, Mark]

On Apr 18, 2012, at 7:56 AM, "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:45 +0000, Hatle, Mark wrote:
>> There is/was a conversion that changed - to _ in the package arch.  And yes this needs to be fixed ASAP.
> 
> Let put this really simply. We are not doing this just as the -rc4 is
> about to build. If we want to start considering a change like this we
> might as well abort the release, start again and slip four weeks.
> 
> Why? That dash syntax works fine in opkg and is in use in real world
> opkg feeds. This appears to be an rpm only issue. It also only appears
> to be directly affecting hob right at this point

I agree completely, the conversion is package manager specific.  I swear the RPM integration did this conversion in prior versions, the zypper setup has code to do the same as well.

The code belongs in the package_rpm.bbclass...

> When we filtered MACHINE people complained a lot. When we filtered
> MACHINE_ARCH there were more complaints. If you just put the filtering
> straight onto PACKAGE_ARCH as well, there will be immense trouble as it
> will badly break Angstrom for a start :(.
> 
> I'd ask people think about what they're proposing and put it into
> perspective.
> 
> I believe Dongxiao has a patch which would allow us to work around the
> issue in hob for this release and then we can re-assess this issue in
> 1.3. I suspect the fix is going to be to drop the name mangling in the
> core and move it to be specific to rpm.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
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