[oe] [RFC] duplicate recipes

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/3/10 Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:44:48PM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> Time for a summary I guess:
>>
>> original proposal from me:
>> Probably the best scenario is to remove all versions which
>> - are not the latest version
>> - are not  pinned with  PREFERRED_VERSION  in conf/distro/*
>> - do not have the largest DEFAULT_PREFERENCE
>
> I think this rules are quite strict, in first iteration would be enough
> to keep only latest from each "major" version
>
> where major version is defined by common-sense (ie first 2 version
> number for xorg, but somewhere first number is enough)
>
> ie for xserver-xorg:
> ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.2.0.bb
> ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.3.0.0.bb
> ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.4.2.bb
> mv ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.4.bb
> mv ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.5.1.bb
> ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.5.3.bb
> mv ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.7.1.bb
> ../dev/recipes/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg_1.7.4.bb
>
> and update preferred-xorg-versions (1.7.1->1.7.4) and other if needed
>
>> opinions:
>
> JaMa: move older minor versions to obsolete, keep latest for each "major"

Noted!

(but for my understanding:why do you see it useful to retain old
versions that are not pinned. For xorg, being a complicated and big
thing I can partly understand it, but is there really a point in
keeping old versions of e.g. transmission? (noting that if needed they
can always be recovered from git).

Frans