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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] bitbake.conf: Stop providing ${P} and ${PF} by default
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On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 15:33 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> Thanks, Can we provide a replacement for the "bitbake PN-PV" since it is
> useful, for example, can we support the PREFERRED_VERSION_${PN} in the env
> in the future ? There is a similar bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4965

If you set BB_PRESERVE_ENV=1 you can set PREFERRED_VERSION_xxx from the
environment so this should already be possible?

Cheers,

Richard