[OE-core] [PATCH] documentation.conf: document PREFERRED_VERSION wildcard limitations

Andre McCurdy armccurdy at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 18:33:27 UTC 2015


PREFERRED_VERSION values containing the '%' wildcard should only be
used when the wildcard pattern is known to only match one available
recipe. See longer explanation in:

  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.bitbake.devel/1038

Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com>
---
 meta/conf/documentation.conf | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index 845559a..c31c217 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ PN[doc] = "PN refers to a recipe name in the context of a file used by the OpenE
 PNBLACKLIST[doc] = "Lists recipes you do not want the OpenEmbedded build system to build."
 PR[doc] = "The revision of the recipe. The default value for this variable is 'r0'."
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER[doc] = "If multiple recipes provide an item, this variable determines which recipe should be given preference."
-PREFERRED_VERSION[doc] = "If there are multiple versions of recipes available, this variable determines which recipe should be given preference."
+PREFERRED_VERSION[doc] = "If there are multiple versions of recipes available, this variable determines which recipe should be given preference. The '%' wildcard is supported but should be used with care, results are unpredictable if it matches more than one available version."
 PREMIRRORS[doc] = "Specifies additional paths from which the OpenEmbedded build system gets source code."
 PRINC[doc] = "Causes the PR variable of .bbappend files to dynamically increment. This increment minimizes the impact of layer ordering. This variable defaults to '0'."
 PRIORITY[doc] = "Indicates the importance of a package.  The default value is 'optional'.  Other standard values are 'required', 'standard' and 'extra'."
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1.9.1




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