On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2014-08-06 10:20, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > > > > Hi Robert, > > > > > > On Monday 04 August 2014 05:29:45 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > > > > > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 2:05 AM > > > > > To: Rifenbark, Scott M > > > > > Subject: question about installing multiple versions of a single > > > > > library > > > > > > > > > > sorry for the interruption, i'm reading dev manual here: > > > > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-> > > > > > >manual.html#installing-multiple-versions-of-the-same-library > > > > > > > > > > and the example used (clutter) doesn't even exist in oe-core with > > > > > those > > > > > version numbers, i was looking for another example that actually > > > > > exists, > > > > > didn't immediately see one. > > > > > > > > > > more to the point, the version numbers used in those clutter recipe > > > > > files > > > > > look> > > > > > weird: > > > > > clutter-1.6_1.6.20.bb > > > > > clutter-1.8_1.8.4.bb > > > > > > > > > > i'm not used to seeing recipe files that appear to combine a > > > > > higher version number *and* what looks like a minor version > > > > > number upgrade as well. do you know what's going on there? maybe > > > > > that's not the best example for trying to explain this topic. > > > > > > The specific versions of clutter may no longer exist in the > > > metadata, but we do still use this scheme for clutter recipes and > > > others (gstreamer comes to mind). The point is you change PN to be > > > version-specific - you have clutter-1.6 and clutter-1.8, such that > > > you can depend on the specific version where needed. > > > > ah, i see ... the software name is not simply "clutter", it is > > "clutter-1.6" or "clutter-1.8". got it. > > The '_' in the recipe name is the key - everything to the left of > it is the package name and the version is to the right.
yes, i do feel silly about not having noticed that. go ahead ... rub it in. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto