On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 09:46:57AM +0200, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > On 6 January 2013 22:28, Marko Lindqvist <cazf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 6 January 2013 06:29, Saul Wold <s...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > >>> > >> Even after a number of years, I > >> loose track sometimes of what's stable vs unstable (odd vs .99 vs ??) > > > > Another challenge for http://packages.yoctoproject.org/ ? > > Actually, does it even know how new major versions will be in new > directory? Asking because I don't know even if it collects the URL to > check from recipes, or is that given in some specfile. At least gtk+3 > recipe in meta-openembedded has that directory hardcoded > ".../gtk+/3.4/gtk+-${PV}.tar.xz" so when ever updating to new major > version, SRC_URI needs to be touched. > What I'm envisioning is that maybe bitbake should provide us with new > variable PM or PMV (major version) that's basically PV with last dot > and everything after it removed. That would allow us to easily make > many such SRC_URIs dynamic, e.g., ".../gtk+/${PM}/gtk+-${PV}.tar.xz". > This would be more worthsome if it's something > packages.yoctoproject.org too could benefit from.
That looks like SHRT_VER used in some recipes. Cheers, -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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