[OE-core] PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/..

[Phil Blundell]

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:45 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> In meta-gumstix I am working on a central include-file where I can
> switch kernel-sources/-versions at one single place.
> 
> For this I need PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/... working.
> 
> Is there a specific reason why this is not implemented or would it
> cause huge efforts to implement?

Well, it's inherently meaningless: virtuals don't have any version
number, only concrete packages do, and it's entirely possible that the
different providers for a given virtual might have unrelated (whether or
not intersecting) version numbering schemes.  

Why exactly do you want this?

p.