[meta-ti] [PATCH] mesa appends: remove PROVIDES

[Dmytriyenko, Denys]

Thanks, I'll have to look at it once I'm back from ELCE...


Denys


-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Müller [schnitzeltony at googlemail.com]
Received: Thursday, 24 Oct 2013, 12:49
To: Gary Thomas [gary at mlbassoc.com]
CC: meta-ti at yoctoproject.org [meta-ti at yoctoproject.org]
Subject: Re: [meta-ti] [PATCH] mesa appends: remove PROVIDES

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-24 03:29, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>
>> These came in when mesa was reworked. Nowadays they are useless and what
>> they try to do achieve is wrong: provider for virtual/libgsl should be
>> mesa-gl. The appends were left in to avoid backward revision trouble in
>> package feeds.
>
>
> If this is the correct solution, I think these .bbappend files should be
> removed completely.  They don't change anything and keeping them just to
> retain the PRINC is useless because as is one cannot even build a system
> which uses virtual/mesa, e.g. one using the X11 server.  In addition, the
> main mesa recipe is about to be updated so they'll need changing again very
> soon.
>
So let's kick them out as soon as mesa is updated

Andreas
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