From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NBIjH-0005BG-Cv for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:56:10 +0100 Received: from cpe002129687b04-cm001225dbafb6.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.235.241.187] helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NBIhv-0003pI-Ke for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:54:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:54:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: OpenEmbedded Development mailing list Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.235.106.9 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so? 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: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:56:10 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII a couple silly questions while i prep a guile package update. 1) if a newer package is added under recipes, i'm assuming that it's the newest version of the package that will be used for a build, unless a PREFERRED_VERSION directive is used, correct? 2) at what point can i start to add that new package info so that a current build doesn't pick it up? once all the .bb files are parsed and the package builds are underway, is that it for any further consultation of the .bb files? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================