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From: Chris Larson <clarson@kergoth.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of <distro>.conf overrules local.conf setting ?
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:22:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinK5O3F25QJ40B8+rt5M57BKwWVOYytUEZqvP-D@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0B51A1E7C61D114DAE6FC10B0FD0ABA5018B5E82@deimsg40.de.net.world>

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) <
Wolfgang.Hauser.external@eads.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to change some used versions of packages, so I added a
> PREFERRED_VERSION_<package>="xxx" for the packages I want to have a
> special(newer) version to be used.
>
> But e. g. for busybox the version defined in the used <distro>.conf is
> used instead of my setting in local.conf.
>
> Should local.conf not overrule <distro/machine>.conf ??


Conceptually, local should override everything, as it's the "most specific"
information available, but from a technical standpoint, we can't parse the
machine and distro configs until local.conf is parsed, as that's usually
where the MACHINE and DISTRO are set.  You can use a 'local' override to get
around it, or you can ask the distro/machine maintainer to use ?=
assignments (set only if unset).

PREFERRED_VERSION_<package>_local = "xxx" is how you use the override.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-09 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-09 13:26 Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of <distro>.conf overrules local.conf setting ? Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
2010-08-09 14:22 ` Chris Larson [this message]
2010-08-09 19:01   ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-08-09 23:15     ` Graham Gower
2010-08-10  7:00       ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-08-11  3:59         ` Mike Westerhof
2010-08-10 20:50       ` Koen Kooi
2010-08-10 20:56         ` Chris Larson
2010-08-10 23:44           ` Graham Gower
2010-08-11  1:42             ` Denys Dmytriyenko
2010-08-11  2:43               ` Graham Gower
2010-08-11  3:10                 ` Denys Dmytriyenko
2010-08-11  5:16           ` Khem Raj
2010-08-11  6:08             ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-08-11  6:20               ` Martin Jansa
2010-08-11  7:53                 ` Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
2010-08-11  8:28                   ` Khem Raj
2010-08-11  9:50                     ` Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of <distro>.conf overruleslocal.conf " Hauser, Wolfgang (external)

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