[Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Packaged-staging feed project

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/2/11 Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Now that packaged-staging seems to be working again, I think it's time
>>
>> There are some issues left.
>
> Yes, definitely.
> But finally after more than one year I can at least rebuild zaurus
> images (tricky because of the initramfs and two kernels) from pstage.
>
> What's conceirning me is the talk on irc of some days ago [1]: it
> seems the actual packaged-staging is already deprecated...
>
> If you missed it:
>
> 23:19.04        RP__    pb__: It would be nice to take a step back and solve
> some of this properly
> 23:19.29        RP__    rather than continually trying to retain compatibility
> and digging a deeper hole
> 23:19.42        RP__    which is what I see packaged-staging as :/
>
> 23:21.45        RP__    pb__: but we also disagree on the package reuse thing :/
>
> 23:20.17        pb__    yeah, I think I am on the point of throwing
> packaged-staging away and writing a new replacement for it from
> scratch.
> 23:20.31        pb__    it doesn't really seem to solve my problems in a way
> that I want to have them solved :-}
> 23:21.00        RP__    pb__: I hate the thing :(
>
> 23:22.18        kergoth when i was experimenting with private staging, i
> combined the packaged-staging functionality with the sysroot/staging
> bits in base.bbclass, moved it all into a staging.bbclass, and pulled
> that in from base.  probably a decent way to go for a replacement for
> the regular thing too


I don't think we should throw things away until there is something better.
People who do not like it have the option of disabling it, but I feel
40 minutes to restore a system is better than 4 hour to rebuild from
scratch

Frans