Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-11 Thread Frans Meulenbroeks
Without quoting tons of text and without going into each individual argument given there are a few remarks I want to give. Things should be consistent and intuitive. local.conf is for local configuration. as such it suggests that whatever is in there is leading. Having to append _local to an

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-11 Thread Martin Jansa
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 08:08:20AM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: Without quoting tons of text and without going into each individual argument given there are a few remarks I want to give. Things should be consistent and intuitive. local.conf is for local configuration. as such it suggests

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-11 Thread Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
Hello, I don't wanted to initiate heavy changes, for my experience: Don't change a running system. I just asked for a simple way to use my preferred version for specific packages. As I understand OE, it should be possible to use the main repository with some view personal changes to get the

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-11 Thread Khem Raj
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wolfgang.hauser.exter...@eads.com wrote: Hello, I don't wanted to initiate heavy changes, for my experience: Don't change a running system. I just asked for a simple way to use my preferred version for specific packages. As I

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Frans Meulenbroeks
2010/8/10 Graham Gower graham.go...@gmail.com: On 10 August 2010 04:31, Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbro...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/9 Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wolfgang.hauser.exter...@eads.com wrote:

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-08-10 01:15, Graham Gower wrote: On 10 August 2010 04:31, Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbro...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/9 Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external)

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Chris Larson
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi k.k...@student.utwente.nlwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-08-10 01:15, Graham Gower wrote: On 10 August 2010 04:31, Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbro...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/9 Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com: On

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Graham Gower
On 11 August 2010 06:26, Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi k.k...@student.utwente.nlwrote: What's the point of setting a preferred version at all if you make it a weak assignment? The distro nearly always knows better and if you want to use a

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Denys Dmytriyenko
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:14:41AM +0930, Graham Gower wrote: On 11 August 2010 06:26, Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi k.k...@student.utwente.nlwrote: What's the point of setting a preferred version at all if you make it a weak assignment?

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Graham Gower
On 11 August 2010 11:12, Denys Dmytriyenko de...@denix.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:14:41AM +0930, Graham Gower wrote: On 11 August 2010 06:26, Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi k.k...@student.utwente.nlwrote: What's the point of

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Denys Dmytriyenko
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:13:08PM +0930, Graham Gower wrote: Ok, I'm not so passionate about this change... But I'd like to highlight why this is not particularly intuitive. My experience has been that only certain image targets will build without overrides in a local.conf. But then i

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Westerhof
Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: 2010/8/10 Graham Gower graham.go...@gmail.com: On 10 August 2010 04:31, Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbro...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/9 Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wolfgang.hauser.exter...@eads.com

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-10 Thread Khem Raj
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi k.k...@student.utwente.nlwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-08-10 01:15, Graham Gower wrote: On 10 August 2010 04:31, Frans Meulenbroeks

[oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-09 Thread Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
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

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-09 Thread Chris Larson
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wolfgang.hauser.exter...@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

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-09 Thread Frans Meulenbroeks
2010/8/9 Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wolfgang.hauser.exter...@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

Re: [oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of distro.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

2010-08-09 Thread Graham Gower
On 10 August 2010 04:31, Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbro...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/9 Chris Larson clar...@kergoth.com: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wolfgang.hauser.exter...@eads.com wrote: Hello, I want to change some used versions of packages, so I added