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

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 09:46:57AM +0200, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> 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.

That looks like SHRT_VER used in some recipes.

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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