2010/3/10 Martin Jansa <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:44:48PM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >> Time for a summary I guess: >> >> original proposal from me: >> Probably the best scenario is to remove all versions which >> - are not the latest version >> - are not pinned with PREFERRED_VERSION in conf/distro/* >> - do not have the largest DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > > I think this rules are quite strict, in first iteration would be enough > to keep only latest from each "major" version > > where major version is defined by common-sense (ie first 2 version > number for xorg, but somewhere first number is enough) > > ie for xserver-xorg: > ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.2.0.bb > ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.3.0.0.bb > ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.4.2.bb > mv ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.4.bb > mv ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.5.1.bb > ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.5.3.bb > mv ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.7.1.bb > ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.7.4.bb > > and update preferred-xorg-versions (1.7.1->1.7.4) and other if needed > >> opinions: > > JaMa: move older minor versions to obsolete, keep latest for each "major"
Noted! (but for my understanding:why do you see it useful to retain old versions that are not pinned. For xorg, being a complicated and big thing I can partly understand it, but is there really a point in keeping old versions of e.g. transmission? (noting that if needed they can always be recovered from git). Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
