From: Chris Conroy <Chris.Conroy@hillcrestlabs.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:07:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258729646.8426.2.camel@conroy-linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911192050230.11568@localhost>
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 20:54 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> a couple silly questions while i prep a guile package update.
>
> 1) if a newer package is added under recipes, i'm assuming that it's
> the newest version of the package that will be used for a build,
> unless a PREFERRED_VERSION directive is used, correct?
>
> 2) at what point can i start to add that new package info so that a
> current build doesn't pick it up? once all the .bb files are parsed
> and the package builds are underway, is that it for any further
> consultation of the .bb files?
I'm not sure if I'm understanding your problem correctly, but to me it
sounds like you just want to set DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" in the recipe
you're concerned about.
--Chris
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2009-11-20 1:54 adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so? Robert P. J. Day
2009-11-20 15:07 ` Chris Conroy [this message]
2009-11-20 15:13 ` Robert P. J. Day
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