From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Müller" <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/..
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:47:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346928461.2673.186.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALbNGRR0tpkqGtN6szJc5dLqYKPRFnyeaD2tyRAk6nV50aOT8w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:45 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> In meta-gumstix I am working on a central include-file where I can
> switch kernel-sources/-versions at one single place.
>
> For this I need PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/... working.
>
> Is there a specific reason why this is not implemented or would it
> cause huge efforts to implement?
Well, it's inherently meaningless: virtuals don't have any version
number, only concrete packages do, and it's entirely possible that the
different providers for a given virtual might have unrelated (whether or
not intersecting) version numbering schemes.
Why exactly do you want this?
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 10:45 PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/ Andreas Müller
2012-09-06 10:47 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2012-09-06 11:14 ` PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/ Andreas Müller
2012-09-06 17:43 ` PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/ Mark Hatle
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