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Subject: Re: preferred version not available
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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