adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so?

adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  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
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Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

            Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

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Re: adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so?

[Chris Conroy]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 20:54 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure if I'm understanding your problem correctly, but to me it
sounds like you just want to set DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" in the recipe
you're concerned about.

--Chris

Re: adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Chris Conroy wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 20:54 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I'm not sure if I'm understanding your problem correctly, but to me
> it sounds like you just want to set DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" in the
> recipe you're concerned about.

  not really, i was simply asking what *would* happen upon the
addition of a newer version of a package, that's all.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

            Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

Web page:                                          http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
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