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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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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