[oe] busybox recipe isappearances

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 18:46 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 18:47 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Ack. Been bitten my that more than once. We should either leave the versions 
> > and just add newer ones or change the preferred-providers to match (if sure 
> > it's a minor update of a stable version). 
> > 
> > (This time it was an error on my side though.)
> 
> It's long been my view that we should just add newer ones and leave the
> old ones alone.  There's really no reason to delete old recipes and,
> even if you check for PREFERRED_VERSIONs in the git tree, there is no
> real way to know who else might be relying on the version you are about
> to delete. 
> 
> Making an explicit distinction between minor and major updates as far as
> PREFERRED_VERSION goes is quite an interesting idea though.  I can
> certainly imagine that I might, for example, want to pin libglib to
> 2.14.x but be prepared to accept minor version updates within that
> series.  I don't think there's currently any syntax to allow that but it
> would be a neat enhancement.

I've also hit a problem where we want PREFERRED_VERSION = "3.4.5+svnrX"
where X can vary with SRCREV. Allowing a * character in the
PREFERRED_VERSION fields could be useful for both problems?

Cheers,

Richard