[poky] [PATCH 0/5] [BUG# 227] rpm/deb support for meta-toolchain.

[Lu, Lianhao]

Richard Purdie wrote on 2011-01-29:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 18:01 +0800, Lianhao Lu wrote:
>> From: Lianhao Lu <lianhao.lu at intel.com>
>> 
>> The purpose of this series of patches is to add rpm/deb support in
>> meta-toolchain creation, and also to fix bug #227.
>> 
>> It makes the task populate_sdk in
>> meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-toolchain.bb more generic to support
>> installing packages from ipk, rpm, and deb files in creating
>> meta-toolchain
> tarball, and move the populate_sdk task out of meta-toolchain.bb
> recipe into a bbclass.
>> 
>> It added populate_sdk_xxx.bbclass for different package file format.
>> 
>> Since there are quite many code duplication between relevant
>> popuplage_sdk_xxx and rootfs_xxx bbclasses, it also moved the common
>> code into the package_xxx.bbclass, based on RP's suggestion. The
>> generic function package_install_internal_xxx() may installs a list of
>> packages, based on the information specified by various shell
>> environment variables about where the target directory to be installed
>> to, package architecture information, etc.
>> 
>> It also fixed a bug in cross-canadian.bbclass to enable the
>> package_deb.bbclass generate correct deb package files for
>> cross-canadian
> recipies.
> 
> These patches are good, if you have time could you:
> 
> a) rebase these patches against the merged rpm changes from Mark Hatle
>    from the rpm update to 5.4
> b) Try hard to split out any logical changes you can from the bigger
> patches into specific steps. For example, enhancing the log_check
> function and moving those around could be a separate commit.
> 
> The idea is to make changes in clear logical steps where at all
> possible so anyone reviewing the changes (such as Saul, Mark and
> myself) can then more quickly "see" the changes are correct and also,
> if there are problems, we can bisect the commits to track down which change the problem is from.

Hi RP,

Please use my latest branch at 
Pull URL: git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib.git
  Branch: llu/bug227
  Browse: http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=llu/bug227

It's based to Mark's RPM 5.4 upgrade and split the big patches into smaller ones.

- Best Regards,
Lianhao