From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 852CDE00563; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:27:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C677E0054C for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 83A35F811ED; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:27:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7591CF811E5; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:27:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <53E25797.6030206@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:28:07 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <41DEA4B02DBDEF40A0F3B6D0DDB1237983FD3136@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <2384884.X0kGjS6PL9@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: question about installing multiple versions of a single library X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:27:43 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2014-08-06 10:20, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> >> On Monday 04 August 2014 05:29:45 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca] >>>> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 2:05 AM >>>> To: Rifenbark, Scott M >>>> Subject: question about installing multiple versions of a single library >>>> >>>> sorry for the interruption, i'm reading dev manual here: >>>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-> >manual.html#installing-multiple-versions-of-the-same-library >>>> >>>> and the example used (clutter) doesn't even exist in oe-core with those >>>> version numbers, i was looking for another example that actually exists, >>>> didn't immediately see one. >>>> >>>> more to the point, the version numbers used in those clutter recipe files >>>> look> >>>> weird: >>>> clutter-1.6_1.6.20.bb >>>> clutter-1.8_1.8.4.bb >>>> >>>> i'm not used to seeing recipe files that appear to combine a >>>> higher version number *and* what looks like a minor version >>>> number upgrade as well. do you know what's going on there? maybe >>>> that's not the best example for trying to explain this topic. >> >> The specific versions of clutter may no longer exist in the >> metadata, but we do still use this scheme for clutter recipes and >> others (gstreamer comes to mind). The point is you change PN to be >> version-specific - you have clutter-1.6 and clutter-1.8, such that >> you can depend on the specific version where needed. > > ah, i see ... the software name is not simply "clutter", it is > "clutter-1.6" or "clutter-1.8". got it. The '_' in the recipe name is the key - everything to the left of it is the package name and the version is to the right. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------