On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:50:13AM +0400, Roman I Khimov wrote: > В сообщении от Понедельник 16 августа 2010 23:35:59 автор Khem Raj написал: > > IMO the newest version in a recipe should always be default preference > > this way we can > > stabilize recipe upgrades quicker. This also means a wider testing > > before pushing a new recipe > > DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" makes it to escape the testing. > > Well, consider Perl, for example. Making 5.10.1 a default preference would > break binary packaged perl modules built for 5.8.8, so technically some > massive PR bump (most probably DISTRO_PR) is needed when updating to 5.10.1. > Forcing distro maintainers to do that is not nice, IMO.
But if you drop D_P globally you can bump PR of depending packages just once. If distro maintainders add P_V_perl = "5.10.1" one by one, then we'll have multiple PR bumps. Regards, -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
