[oe] native preferences

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Mon Jul 26 18:38:34 UTC 2010


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On 26-07-10 19:14, Tom Rini wrote:
> Florian Boor wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dr. Michael Lauer schrieb:
>>> Of course the preferred way - rather than switching distros - is to
>>> fix this obvious bug
>>> in the OE metadata.
>>
>> yes I see it like this. Switching to a distribution that pins more
>> versions is
>> not really what I would call a fix. It is a workaround but should not
>> become the
>> default way to deal with such issues in OE.
>> What we introduced here is clearly a bug in OE and not the
>> distributions fault.
> 
> Except that it's a bitbake issue, not a metadata issue, iirc (which is
> why it's fixed in the 1.10 branch, but not 1.8).

Yes, that's why I said "the bug has been fixed
in bitbake 1.10" earlier in the thread :)
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