[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL (V2) 00/35] Updates, Multilib Patches and other fixes

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 6 January 2013 22:28, Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 January 2013 06:29, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>> Even after a number of years, I
>> loose track sometimes of what's stable vs unstable (odd vs .99 vs ??)
>
>  Another challenge for http://packages.yoctoproject.org/ ?

 Actually, does it even know how new major versions will be in new
directory? Asking because I don't know even if it collects the URL to
check from recipes, or is that given in some specfile. At least gtk+3
recipe in meta-openembedded has that directory hardcoded
".../gtk+/3.4/gtk+-${PV}.tar.xz" so when ever updating to new major
version, SRC_URI needs to be touched.
 What I'm envisioning is that maybe bitbake should provide us with new
variable PM or PMV (major version) that's basically PV with last dot
and everything after it removed. That would allow us to easily make
many such SRC_URIs dynamic, e.g., ".../gtk+/${PM}/gtk+-${PV}.tar.xz".
This would be more worthsome if it's something
packages.yoctoproject.org too could benefit from.


 - ML