<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Burton, Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com" target="_blank">ross.burton@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 March 2017 at 14:59, Richard Purdie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">richard.purdie@<wbr>linuxfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id="m_-2016157887089947049:1nx" class="m_-2016157887089947049a3s m_-2016157887089947049aXjCH m_-2016157887089947049m15af689089651d6d">What should happen is that the openstack recipe should complain loudly<br>
(error) if anyone tried to build it (or parse it?) with anything except<br>
the versions its known to work with.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></span>Is this a good time to bring up versions in DEPENDS?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It would be awesome to automatically set PREFERRED_VERSION as appropriate depending on the constrains in DEPENDS, but I'd be really happy with errors if the versions specified were not selected.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So in this case openstack could do DEPENDS=python-something (>4.0) and bitbake would error out if python-something v3 is being built.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be ideal, and it was actually something I tried in the past. But it was causing</div><div>issues with some package backends, so most of those specifics had to be dropped. </div><div><br></div><div>The details are fuzzy, but I could data mine my email if needed.</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></font></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">"Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end"</div>
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