For one project I'm using an Atmel AT91SAM9G25 processor, and I started when 
support for the chip wasn't fully integrated into the mainline kernel.  As a 
result, I was using Atmel's Linux fork.  Support has been in the mainline 
kernel for a while now, so in the middle of doing other updates I plan on 
switching to using one of the mainline LTS releases.  I'm using the kernel 
recipe in the meta-sunxi layer as an example (located here: 
https://github.com/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux_4.4.40.bb).
 I also plan on keeping more up to date on releases.  However, due to the 
package naming for the kernel images, the RREPLACES/RCONFLICTS statements for 
firmware upgrade for this recipe is getting ridiculous.  I'm currently building 
for kernel version 4.1.38, and here's what I have so far to handle all previous 
cases:

RREPLACES_kernel-image = "kernel-image (<= 4.1) 
kernel-image-3.6.9-yocto-standard kernel-image-3.10.0-yocto-standard 
kernel-image-3.10.0-at91"
RCONFLICTS_kernel-image = "kernel-image (<= 4.1) 
kernel-image-3.6.9-yocto-standard kernel-image-3.10.0-yocto-standard 
kernel-image-3.10.0-at91"

If it makes a difference, I'm using opkg for a package manager.  Since the 
kernel version is in the package name, I'm assuming that if I do keep going 
forward and relatively up to date with LTS release, I'll have to start adding 
"kernel-image-4.1.38 kernel-image-4.1.39 kernel-image 4.1.40 ...." to the 
RREPLACES/RCONFLICTS so opkg will upgrade the kernel.

Is there a better way to do this?  I've tried using some wildcards in the 
package names without any success.

Thanks,
Bryan
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