[OE-core] curious about proper use of "REALPV" re: versioning pre-release recipes

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2020, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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>   second, the only example of that feature in all of oe-core is
> cdrtools-native_3.01.bb, which contains:
>
>   PV = "3.01a31+really3.01"
>   REALPV = "3.01"
>
> but that doesn't seem to match what is in the YP manual, as the recipe
> filename version contains just "3.01", so this doesn't seem like a
> situation where that feature is necessary. indeed, it seems like
> cdrtools-3.01 has been out since 2015:
>
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/
>
> so it's unclear why this recipe doesn't just use 3.01.

  ack, should have mentioned that if one really wanted to update
cdrtools, there *is* a cdrtools-3.0.2a09.tar.gz, which really *would*
be a decent (instructional) example of that feature.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/alpha/cdrtools-3.02a09.tar.gz

rday