Re: AUTOREV and SRCPV

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:13:37AM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:37 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > The other is when you change SRCREV in recipe without updating PV. Then
> > SRCPV will give you newer PV which will upgrade resulting package on
> > target.
> 
> If it's just a question of getting the package upgraded on the target
> then you can do that with PKGV; there's no need to fiddle with PV at
> all.  The only case where PV is important is where you need bitbake to
> realise that the package needs to be rebuilt in the first (since the
> SRCREVs aren't going to be sortable), 

Ah right, sure you need both PV and PKGV higher.

> but I think that's already fixable
> with strategic use of PREFERRED_VERSION and/or DEFAULT_PREFERENCE.

How? Can you explain in more detail?

Regards,

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