On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Phil Blundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:45 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote: >> In meta-gumstix I am working on a central include-file where I can >> switch kernel-sources/-versions at one single place. >> >> For this I need PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/... working. >> >> Is there a specific reason why this is not implemented or would it >> cause huge efforts to implement? > > Well, it's inherently meaningless: virtuals don't have any version > number, only concrete packages do, and it's entirely possible that the > different providers for a given virtual might have unrelated (whether or > not intersecting) version numbering schemes. > > Why exactly do you want this? > > p. > > Since I spend lot of time testing different kernels, I would like to have a single location where I can setup which kernel-source/-version is compiled [1] simply (this file is included by my machine configuration [2]). Alongside I want to ensure that the linux-glibc-headers share same version as the kernel [3].
So for my case: I have * linux-mainline_3.2.bbappend (3.2.19) * linux-omap_3.5.bb (3.5.0) * linux-omap_3.6.bb (3.6.0-rc3) * linux-sakoman_3.2.bb (3.2.0) Without PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/.. I cannot select between linux-omap_3.5.bb and linux-omap_3.6.bb. OK I can use PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-omap (as I am doing in [2] currently) but if I select to build linux-mainline, I get complaints that there is no linux-omap-3.2.9. Hope that explains what I would like to have this feature... Andreas [1] http://gitorious.org/schnitzeltony-oe-meta/meta-gumstix/blobs/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-versions-overo.inc [2] http://gitorious.org/schnitzeltony-oe-meta/meta-gumstix/blobs/master/conf/machine/overo.conf [3] http://gitorious.org/schnitzeltony-oe-meta/meta-gumstix/blobs/master/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers_git.bb Repl _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
