[oe] adding an updated package, and when it's safe to do so?

[Chris Conroy]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 20:54 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> a couple silly questions while i prep a guile package update.
> 
> 1) if a newer package is added under recipes, i'm assuming that it's
> the newest version of the package that will be used for a build,
> unless a PREFERRED_VERSION directive is used, correct?
> 
> 2) at what point can i start to add that new package info so that a
> current build doesn't pick it up?  once all the .bb files are parsed
> and the package builds are underway, is that it for any further
> consultation of the .bb files?

I'm not sure if I'm understanding your problem correctly, but to me it
sounds like you just want to set DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" in the recipe
you're concerned about.

--Chris