[oe] [RFC] Version sorting in BitBake

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Denys,

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
[...]
> PV1 = "2.6.29-${PR}+gitr${SRCREV}"
> PV2 = "2.6.29+2.6.30-rc5-${PR}+gitr${SRCREV}"
> PV3 = "2.6.30-${PR}+gitr${SRCREV}"
>
> That still works with opkg, as ipkg-compare-versions sorts above PVs as
> expected - PV1 < PV2 < PV3
>
> But BitBake now has this flaw and sorts like this: PV2 < PV1 < PV3
[...]

Please send the patch for people to review and would be nice to have
it commited since many of us could have been using non-required
overrides.

Thanks by founding and _fixing_ it :-D

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