Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On 22 March 2017 at 16:32, Richard Purdie < richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Someone needs to file a bug... > Found https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8745. Currently a future enhancement, I think we should reschedule this to 2.4. Simply bailing shouldn't be that much

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 22 March 2017 at 14:59, Richard Purdie linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> What should happen is that the openstack recipe should complain loudly >> (error) if anyone tried to build it (or parse

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 15:44 +, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 22 March 2017 at 14:59, Richard Purdie tion.org> wrote: > > What should happen is that the openstack recipe should complain > > loudly > > (error) if anyone tried to build it (or parse it?) with anything >

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On 22 March 2017 at 14:59, Richard Purdie < richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > What should happen is that the openstack recipe should complain loudly > (error) if anyone tried to build it (or parse it?) with anything except > the versions its known to work with. > Is this a good time

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:33:17 -0400 Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > > proper attributions seem to have been totally lost here ... > > > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > >

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 08:33 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day .ca> wrote: > > > >   proper attributions seem to have been totally lost here ... > > > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 22,

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > >   proper attributions seem to have been totally lost here ... > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > proper attributions seem to have been totally lost here ... > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Burton, Ross > wrote: > > > > On

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

proper attributions seem to have been totally lost here ... On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 22 March 2017 at 11:57, Bruce Ashfield > wrote: > So where

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 22 March 2017 at 11:57, Bruce Ashfield > wrote: > >> So where are they supposed to be specified ? Surely not a separate distro >> .conf ? and most >> certainly not in local.conf ... I've

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On 22 March 2017 at 11:57, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > So where are they supposed to be specified ? Surely not a separate distro > .conf ? and most > certainly not in local.conf ... I've always been unsure of where the right > place to specify > versions like that. > If it

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 22 March 2017 at 11:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> so, just to be clear, the simple act of adding that layer to a >> project's bblayers.conf file will cause those preferred versions to >>

Re: [OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

On 22 March 2017 at 11:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so, just to be clear, the simple act of adding that layer to a > project's bblayers.conf file will cause those preferred versions to > be selected, correct? > > is that considered good design? in a perfect world, i've

[OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

i'm just adding some content to intro OE/YP wiki pages about what various OE files should contain, and what they shouldn't contain, and this is the layer.conf file for the meta-openstack layer: # We have a conf and classes directory, append to BBPATH BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}" # We have a