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On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 14:07 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 21:02 +0800, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
> > Maybe all the recipes are using the PKGV default value (?= ${PV}, so
> > this just happens to make EXTENDPKGV equal to EXTENDPV. 
> 
> Yes, could be.  The most common situation where PKGV != PV is when
> something like gitpkgv.bbclass is in use, which doesn't happen all that
> often.  The main effect of using the wrong vars would be to make the
> -doc/-dbg/-dev packages of gitpkgv-using recipes uninstallable, and I
> guess I could believe that this might be happening without anybody
> having noticed.
> 
> > In what situation we should use EXTENDPV but not EXTENDPKGV then?
> 
> Good question.  I suspect the answer is probably "none".

For what its worth I agree with your conclusions, it probably is broken
and nobody has noticed.

Lets keep this simpler and just have one variable :)

Cheers,

Richard