[oe] [PATCH] Mass convert PREFERRED_VERSION_* to be weakly assigned.

[Graham Gower]

On 11 August 2010 09:56, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> On 08/10/2010 04:47 PM, Graham Gower wrote:
>>
>> find conf -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/^PREFERRED_VERSION_\([^ \t]*\)\([
>> \t]*\)=/PREFERRED_VERSION_\1\2?=/' {} \;
>
> Shouldn't DISTRO's decide on a per DISTRO decision whether or not their
> preferred versions are weak?
>
> I;m not entirely opposed to make the assignment weak for Angstrom, but I am
> very opposed to making all DISTRO's use the same policy.

Surely having disunity by giving different distros different policies
would be worse?

>
> It is a real nuisance trying to debug someone's Angstrom build, only to fins
> out they have loads of local overrides.

Point taken. local.conf really should be a mandatory piece of
information when reporting an issue.

>
> Philip
>

-Graham