On 13-02-07 8:52 PM, Rudolf Streif wrote:
Yes, of course with a space. Proportional fonts don't work that well with code. :)
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That's why I am asking if anyone else found that to be a nuisance. Of course, for a BSP you have to set PREFERRED_VERSION. But for testing and working with different kernel version I would find it more convenient if I had not to change PREFERRED_VERSION in the machine file or override it in local.conf. It's also sort of an inconsistency. Typically, one would expect that you could run bitbake against a recipe by specifying the package name and
I'd have to leave this comment up to others with respect to consistency, since I'm a kernel guy and not a long time oe-classic user (just my time with yocto and oe-core). But I've never switched versions on the command line like this myself. A matter of taste and habits I suppose. I quick survey shows roughly: ../meta]> find . -name '*.bb' | xargs grep PV | grep SRCPV | wc -l 87 Almost 90 other recipes with some variant of SRCPV in their version string. So unless I'm mistaken .. they'd all suffer the same issue as linux-yocto. Cheers, Bruce
version. Using -b with the recipe file name is not an option since you would not get the bbappends. Cheers, Rudi On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com <mailto:bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Rudolf Streif <rudolf.str...@linux.com <mailto:rudolf.str...@linux.com>> wrote: I apologize if that has been brought up before. The linux-yocto kernel recipes include the git tags into PV by explicitly setting: PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}" This means that you cannot for example do bitbake linux-yocto-3.2 anymore because PROVIDES does not contain linux-yocto-3.2 but only the rather cumbersome string linux-yocto-3.2+git${SRCPV}, with ${SRCPV} expanded of course. The percent notation only works for PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto = "3.2%" but does not work for bitbake linux-yocto-3.2% That really only leaves you with setting PREFERRED_VERSION which is not that convenient if you just want to build a different kernel version. I am not sure how others feel about that and maybe I am missing something but it would be rather simple to add that back by setting PV = "${LINUX_VERSION} ${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}" You mean with a space in the version string ? I know that I don't want directories floating around with spaces, since they cause no end of troubles. But maybe it's just the font in gmail playing tricks with my eyes. Perhaps Richard has a suggestion, but in 3+ years, this is the first time that this particular issue has come up. Most everyone is setting the PREFERRED_VERSION in their bsps, or local.conf and not using that particular mechanism of switching between kernels .. myself included, and I probably build more versions of linux-yocto than anyone you'll find :) Don't get me wrong, I'm not dead set against changing it, but we do need both the meta and machine git hashes in the version to uniquely identify the tree (and my no spaces comment!). Maybe someone knows of a better way for command line switching of the version ? Cheers, Bruce Well, kind of, you still would have to know the minor version number. Cheers, Rudi _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end" -- -- *Rudolf J. Streif* Director of Embedded Solutions The Linux Foundation rudolf.str...@linux.com <mailto:rudolf.str...@linux.com> Phone: +1.619.631.5383 Skype: rudolfstreif PGP: RSA 2048/2048 D6E7D28B Linux Foundation Events Schedule: events.linuxfoundation.org <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/> Linux Foundation Training Schedule: training.linuxfoundation.org <http://training.linuxfoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
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