Re: [yocto] more nitpicky pedantry: question about DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

2020-02-10 Thread rpj...@crashcourse.ca
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 13:48 -0500, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: > > ... snip ... > > > which seems odd as there don't appear to be any other recipes that > > > provide pkgconfig, and AIUI, the

Re: [yocto] more nitpicky pedantry: question about DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

2020-02-10 Thread rpj...@crashcourse.ca
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 13:31 -0500, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: > >consider under recipes-devtools the two directories "pkgconfig" > > and "pkgconf", and the respective .bb files: > > > > - pkgconfig_git.bb > > - pkgconf_1.6.3.bb > > > > the

Re: [yocto] more nitpicky pedantry: question about DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

2020-02-10 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 13:31 -0500, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: > (part of the nitpickiness of some of these questions stems from > that, in my updated courseware, i want to use actual examples out of, > say, the openembedded layer, and not just contrived examples > involving > packages like

Re: [yocto] more nitpicky pedantry: question about DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

2020-02-10 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 13:31 -0500, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: > (part of the nitpickiness of some of these questions stems from > that, in my updated courseware, i want to use actual examples out of, > say, the openembedded layer, and not just contrived examples > involving > packages like

Re: [yocto] more nitpicky pedantry: question about DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

2020-02-08 Thread rpj...@crashcourse.ca
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: ... snip ... > which seems odd as there don't appear to be any other recipes that > provide pkgconfig, and AIUI, the default provider for any recipe is > the recipe with *exactly* the same name as the target -- in this case, > "pkgconfig". ...

[yocto] more nitpicky pedantry: question about DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

2020-02-08 Thread rpj...@crashcourse.ca
(part of the nitpickiness of some of these questions stems from that, in my updated courseware, i want to use actual examples out of, say, the openembedded layer, and not just contrived examples involving packages like "foo" and "bar". to that end, i want to be able to explain why some recipes