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

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

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.

Jan

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