[OE-core] [RFC] Utilizing LAYERVERSION_ to identify breaking changes to a layer

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Flanagan, Elizabeth
<elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
> I know I've run into this issue and I'm going to bet that other folks
> have as well.
>
> When running some sort of continuous integration system (in my case,
> yocto-autobuilder), I need to build to at least two releases back. The
> problem is, sometimes, local.conf and bblayers.conf requirements
> change, for example, a layer needs a BBMASK for the prior release but
> can't have it for the current one or a layer gets split so that I need
> to add two directories to BBLAYERS as opposed to just the one that I
> used a few commits back. I currently have no great way of figuring
> that out and it has causes immense amounts of pain.

I am sorry but I didn't follow what it will help. Can you please
provide an example?

I always thought the right way to handle it is to have a branch...

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