[OE-core] About upgrade a package to a Release Candidate version (RCX)

[Burton, Ross]

On 28 July 2015 at 08:53, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:

> Is it a good idea to upgrade a package to a Release Candidate version,
> such as RC1, RC2 and so on ? I think no because:
>
> 1) Maybe the RC version is not stable enough.
> 2) Maybe the package's final version doesn't release when
>    oe-core/meta-oe releases, I think that use an older but stable
>    version is better than new RC version usually.


In general that's true, - qemu is the obvious recent exception because they
should be releasing before we freeze and there were major fixes in the RC
compared to the latest stable release.

Ross
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