[oe] [PATCH] openssl: update 1.0.0 to 1.0.0a

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/8/16 Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Roman I Khimov <roman at khimov.ru> wrote:
>> В сообщении от Понедельник 16 августа 2010 22:59:53 автор Frans Meulenbroeks
>> написал:
>>> One small question: Do we want to keep this recipe at
>>> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" ??
>>
>> Well, we're using 1.0.0 since the day it's been released, and it's a perfect
>> fit for us, but I know that it _might_ break some things, just google for
>> openssl 1.0.0 breakage/compatibility patches/etc, that's why I've pushed it
>> that way so that distro maintainers could test whether it works for them with
>> their particular package sets and act accordingly.
>>
>> I certainly have nothing against removing that line if everyone is OK with
>> that.
>>
>
> IMO the newest version in a recipe should always be default preference
> this way we can
> stabilize recipe upgrades quicker. This also means a wider testing
> before pushing a new recipe
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" makes it to escape the testing.
>
For the record. We have 451 recipes with a DEFAULT_PREFERENCE clause.
425 of these seem to have a negative value in it.
In total there are 712 lines with DEFAULT_PREFERENCE
(especailly kernel recipes have preferences for specific machines and
have multiple DEFAULT_PREFERENCE lines)

Frans