[poky] [RFC] put PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS in tune files, not machines files, just like OE does

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:12 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 4 jan 2011, om 09:14 heeft Koen Kooi het volgende geschreven:
> > I spent this mornings pre-coffee time debugging a strange problem in
> do_rootfs which turned out to be pretty simple (after coffee, that
> is): yocto puts PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS in the machine.confs instead of
> the tune files.
> > 
> > This would solve the massive duplication in the machine files and
> help to avoid the "do_rootfs complains about missing packages that
> *are* present" type of problems. FWIW, OE has does this years ago and
> it has worked out quite well.
> > 
> > I do find it funny that various bugs in yocto give a deja-vu feeling
> of having them solved before :)
> 
> This is how the patch would look like:
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=a1825f04c3b8b98a66ae402e99fd40ff2be59c82

I think this makes sense and will take a patch or a bug enhancement
request which we'll get to at some point.

Cheers,

Richard