On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote:
> > On 22 March 2017 at 14:59, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@ > linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> What should happen is that the openstack recipe should complain loudly >> (error) if anyone tried to build it (or parse it?) with anything except >> the versions its known to work with. >> > > Is this a good time to bring up versions in DEPENDS? > > It would be awesome to automatically set PREFERRED_VERSION as appropriate > depending on the constrains in DEPENDS, but I'd be really happy with errors > if the versions specified were not selected. > > So in this case openstack could do DEPENDS=python-something (>4.0) and > bitbake would error out if python-something v3 is being built. > That would be ideal, and it was actually something I tried in the past. But it was causing issues with some package backends, so most of those specifics had to be dropped. The details are fuzzy, but I could data mine my email if needed. Bruce > > Ross > -- "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end"
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