From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from emailgateway.hillcrestlabs.com ([12.173.51.132]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NBV6m-00044C-Fk for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:09:15 +0100 X-AuditID: 0a1e000a-b7b8cae000000d7b-ff-4b06b0c2a8a9 From: Chris Conroy To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:07:26 -0500 Message-Id: <1258729646.8426.2.camel@conroy-linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 12.173.51.132 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: Chris.Conroy@hillcrestlabs.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:09:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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