From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [206.46.173.15] (helo=vms173015pub.verizon.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M658P-0007qQ-CH for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:52:17 +0200 Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([71.127.60.148]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KJU00EQKJQ6FGF0@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 10:44:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 514B114AF5F; Mon, 18 May 2009 11:44:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:44:30 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko In-reply-to: To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-id: <20090518154430.GB19357@denix.org> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <1242247998-30548-1-git-send-email-clarson@mvista.com> <4A0CE800.5040407@dls.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitbake.conf, freeze.inc: Add version lockdown implementation and use it by default. 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: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:52:27 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-disposition: inline On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:07:33PM +0200, Andrea Adami wrote: > >> What about adding a -u (update) option? This would just give old= behaviour. > > > > I don't understand what you'd want -u to do? =A0This patch doesn'= t > > modify bitbake, >=20 > Why? Taboo? > Adding the 'update' option to bitbake would be logic at this point. > Buildscripts would just have to change to 'bitbake -u'. >=20 > (see Gentoo's emerge) I guess since bitbake is not part of OE (unlike Gentoo's emerge/porta= ge), it=20 is less transparent for introducing new features like this one... --=20 Denys