Re: [PATCH] Mass convert PREFERRED_VERSION_* to be weakly assigned.

[Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>]

2010/8/11 Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>:
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> On 11-08-10 13:56, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> 2010/8/11 Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>:
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>>> On 11-08-10 01:47, Graham Gower wrote:
>>>> find conf -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/^PREFERRED_VERSION_\([^ \t]*\)\([ \t]*\)=/PREFERRED_VERSION_\1\2?=/' {} \;
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>>> NAK, Angstrom pins things with a hard assignment for good reasons. We
>>> are open to discuss specific issues you have with versions for various
>>> recipes, though.
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>> Well, I would like angstrom to move to the latest version of mythtv.
>> Would that be possible (and if not what is the problem with mythtv 0.23)
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> For mythtv I try to use a grace period so other distros have the chance
> to have packages for the new mythtv. My backend runs debian, so I
> generally wait for debian-multimedia to catch up.
> I think it's safe to switch to 0.23.x now, and for future releases we
> can see if this policy can be thrown out.

Seems a good plan to move.
I just bumped SRCREV to 25609; building it as I write this.
It'll remain 0.23+fixes.
Apparently 02.3.1 maintenance also takes place in 0.23+fixes (there is
no 0.23.1+fixes and 0.23+fixes also refers to 0.23.1)

FM