From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpanel7.indieserve.net (cpanel7.indieserve.net [199.212.143.8]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.210.1590609006043280853 for ; Wed, 27 May 2020 12:50:06 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.8, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) Received: from cpef81d0f814063-cmf81d0f814060.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.114.57.56]:49178 helo=localhost.localdomain) by cpanel7.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1je23w-00GTFa-8V; Wed, 27 May 2020 15:50:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 15:50:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Khem Raj cc: OpenEmbedded Development mailing list Subject: Re: [oe] [PATCH] use weak assignments for PNBLACKLIST in recipe files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel7.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel7.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel7.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-872669590-1590609004=:7100" --8323328-872669590-1590609004=:7100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Wed, 27 May 2020, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:14 AM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:21 PM Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > > > Make sure PNBLACKLIST assignments in recipe files use weak > > > assignment, so they can be overridden in, for example, local.conf > > > files. > > > > > > > I would like contributions here when someone fixes one of the > > blacklisted recipes. This patch will let downstream users host it in > > bbappends or other places what is the intended use of this patch? > >   i'm not sure what you're asking for here ... there is no claim that > any of these recipes have been fixed in any way, only that weak > assignment seems to be the default for blacklisting to at least allow > for the possibility of overriding. > > > Ok I think that’s fine I wanted to understand the reason since weak > assignment do have some unintended results but if it is to make it > uniform I Think that’s fair discussion on YP list that inspired this: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/74460612#49479 rday --8323328-872669590-1590609004=:7100--