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On Tuesday 22 November 2011 18:25:25 Koen Kooi wrote:
> Does it still suffer from the bug where it will break if you change machine
> and something goes backward in PV (e.g. gcc 4.6 is used on arm, but 4.5 on
> ppc)?

If the package in question is not tied to the machine or the arch that was 
changed, yes it will still cause do_package to fail. I'd be happy to address 
this, but my question would be, how do we tell the difference between a 
legitimate version pinning and when something has gone wrong?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre