Re: [PATCH] lib/oe/path: try hardlinking instead of guessing when it might fail

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 09:51:23 +0200
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:

> On 06.04.20 09:42, Henning Schild wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 18:58:16 +0200
> > Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello Henning,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 02:51:00PM +0100, Henning Schild wrote:  
> >>> This is related to fixing an issue with "--exclude-path" in wic.
> >>> On the Isar side i have everything in place and might send it.
> >>> But we need that upstream fix ... or some workaround if that does
> >>> not get merged.  
> >>
> >> Do I understand correctly, you'd be providing a lib/oe update for
> >> Isar along with the other necessary changes? A test case for
> >> --exclude-path would be nice.  
> > 
> > The test-case is already somewhere in a branch of mine ;). The
> > problem now is that this upstream fix need to come down into Isar.
> > 
> > But i am afraid that our lib/oe is a fork, miles away from
> > upstream.  
> 
> We are fairly close, picking patches from upstream is often possible 
> when we aren't. I just did that not long ago 
> (9813e9e821cb2c4f0ea66544e35030fa261f1a47). Some bits may have to
> remain different sometimes, though.

Ok, i will try a backport and send that test-case along with it.

Henning

> Jan
>