On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:55:45PM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > Dear all, > > Triggered by the discussion on oe devel on splitting meta-oe I decided to > do some quick greps on who uses DEFAULT_PREFERENCE in oe-core and meta-oe. > > Below are the results. > My questions: > - are recipes with D_P = -1 good enough to enter oe core and/or meta oe.
yes, it allows people/layer maintainers to decide which version they want easily > - is it desirable to have a D_P -1 in an inc file (as happens in > mesa-dri.inc) see below > > Best regards, Frans. > > PS: I found the -2 ones especially odd. This seems only useful if there is > someone else already with a -1, which might make the recipe even more > questionable. see below > frans@frans-desktop:~/workspace$ grep -r DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > openembedded-core > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded_4.8.0.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.8.0.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-nativesdk_4.8.0.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-native_4.8.0.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" this is fine as there is stable 4.7.4 and some people already started to use 4.8.0 by their choice (which is easier to do with P_V then adding/removing some fancy qt-4.8 layer). > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/libmatchbox/libmatchbox_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/mutter/mutter_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/xcb/libxcb_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/xcb/xcb-proto_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/cogl_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-dri_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-2" if someone really wants to use development version of it, why force him to use different layer? and -2 is because other mesa-dri versions have -1 from .inc. > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-dri.inc:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" this is because there are other virtual/libgl providers and this was used to demote mesa-dri as provider for it > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/qemugl_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-xlib_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-2" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-nogpg_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-nogpg_0.1.8.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.7.2.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" Because people need to think before switching from 1.6 to 1.7 because of tarballs of svn checkouts are not compatible. > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_csl-arm-2008q1.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > frans@frans-desktop:~/workspace$ grep -r DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > meta-openembedded/ > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.37.2.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" explained in previous thread. > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/eet_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = > "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/eina_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = > "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/edbus_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/efreet_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/edje_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = > "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/embryo_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/eeze_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = > "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/evas_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = > "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/eio_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = > "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/ecore_svn.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" Because there were recipes for released versions and there will be again, so it makes sense to use releases by default if they are not lacking behind much - like they do now. > meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-core/udev/udev_175.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_0.6.8.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > meta-openembedded/contrib/oe-stylize.py: 'DEFAULT_PREFERENCE', > meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-panel/gnome-panel3_3.0.2.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection_git.bb:DEFAULT_PREFERENCE > = "-1" > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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