[yocto] [meta-selinux] How about remove libcap-ng from meta-selinux?

wenzong fan wenzong.fan at windriver.com
Thu Aug 13 23:41:59 PDT 2015


On 08/12/2015 09:05 PM, Joe MacDonald wrote:
> [[yocto] [meta-selinux] How about remove libcap-ng from meta-selinux?] On 15.08.12 (Wed 17:08) wenzong fan wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> There's a libcap-ng in meta-oe layer, it has been updated to 0.7.7 and the
>> one in meta-selinux is 0.7.3.
>>
>> How about removing the one in meta-selinux and get this layer depends on
>> meta-oe? Any suggestions?
>
> The last time we had this discussion my sense was that most users of
> meta-selinux wanted to continue with it only depending on oe-core.
> That's my preference as well.
>
> I'm happy to merge an updated version of libcap-ng (or maybe I'll get to
> it myself, since I've known about it since Armin removed it from
> meta-security, that was the time of the last discussion, I think).
>
> All I'm saying right now is that this isn't a case of accidental
> duplication of recipes in multiple layers, it's the result of a
> conscious decision.  It's totally worthwhile re-visiting that decision,
> though to make sure the reasons are still valid.
>

Thanks for clarifying this, just send out an update patch for libcap-ng.

Wenzong



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