From: Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: preferred version not available
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:20:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E253020.4050001@vollmann.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABcZANnmZwTK147Vwgv8j9omd7xNQQK5EKT99_UEctC2itw3Jw@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/18/11 23:05, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Detlef Vollmann<dv@vollmann.ch> wrote:
>> Ok, I found the problem: PREFERRED_VERSION refers to PV inside
>> the recipe, not to the part of the filename after '_'.
>> As I tinker with PV inside the recipe, bitbake is actually correct
>> that a PV 'githead' is not available for linux-taurus.
>
> 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...
Detlef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 19:16 preferred version not available Detlef Vollmann
2011-07-18 21:02 ` Detlef Vollmann
2011-07-18 21:05 ` Chris Larson
2011-07-19 7:20 ` Detlef Vollmann [this message]
2011-07-19 9:53 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-07-19 10:16 ` Detlef Vollmann
2011-07-19 11:25 ` [oe] " Detlef Vollmann
2011-07-19 15:06 ` Chris Larson
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