From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qj79U-0004Bz-O2 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:03:44 +0200 Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Jul 2011 02:53:37 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,227,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="27523588" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.255.17.187]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Jul 2011 02:53:36 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:53:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-8-generic-pae; KDE/4.6.2; i686; ; ) References: <4E248688.1030902@vollmann.ch> <4E253020.4050001@vollmann.ch> In-Reply-To: <4E253020.4050001@vollmann.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201107191053.35867.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: preferred version not available 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: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:03:45 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tuesday 19 July 2011 08:20:00 Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On 07/18/11 23:05, Chris Larson wrote: > > All variables which are typically set by the filename can be > > overridden. Those are simply defaults. See the definitions of PN, PV, > > and PR in bitbake.conf. > > Yes, I knew that (I actually wrote the line changing the PV myself). > What surprised me (though it makes sense) that PREFERRED_VERSION > refers to PV, and not directly to a part of the filename. > It's probably still too much of 'make' history in my brain... I wonder if it would make sense to add something to the error message that also lists the available versions? Then it would be a little more obvious what you need to set PREFERRED_VERSION to. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre