[OE-core] [PATCH 2/5] conf/bitbake.conf: Added variables for PR service.

[Lu, Lianhao]

Phil Blundell wrote on 2011-05-26:
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 20:43 +0800, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
>> The problem is that in OE-core the default -deb/-dbg packages are
>> all using EXTENDPV, as well as some other recipes. Do you mean we
>> should make them all using EXTENDPKGV instead of EXTENDPV?
> 
> As far as I can tell, yes, that would be the right thing to do.
> That's what I was thinking of when I mentioned the "couple of uses" before.
> The only reason I hesitate is that, although the current behaviour
> looks like it should be wrong, nobody has actually complained about it
> and that makes me wonder if I have misunderstood something.
> 
> I guess someone needs to do a few tests to figure out what exactly is
> going on there.  But I am fairly sure that creating a hybrid PV+PKGR
> is not a good thing to do; it should be either one thing or the other,
> and as far as I know everything on the output side should be using PKGxx.
> 

Maybe all the recipes are using the PKGV default value (?= ${PV}, so this just happens to make EXTENDPKGV equal to EXTENDPV. In what situation we should use EXTENDPV but not EXTENDPKGV then?

Best Regards,
Lianhao