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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Graham Gower <graham.gower at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

whats issue with current versioning ? you always have _local override
if you want
to disregard what DISTRO sets it to. IMO it should be left upto DISTRO to hard
assign or weak assign them. I dont think its a good idea to make all weak

-Khem

>
>>
>> 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
>
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