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diff --git a/poky/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst b/poky/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst index ab3e193aaf..39ee9683b0 100644 --- a/poky/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst +++ b/poky/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst @@ -1082,13 +1082,14 @@ build system and package managers, so the resulting packages will not correctly trigger an upgrade. In order to ensure the versions compare properly, the recommended -convention is to set :term:`PV` within the -recipe to "previous_version+current_version". You can use an additional -variable so that you can use the current version elsewhere. Here is an -example:: +convention is to use a tilde (``~``) character as follows:: - REALPV = "0.8.16-rc1" - PV = "0.8.15+${REALPV}" + PV = 0.8.16~rc1 + +This way ``0.8.16~rc1`` sorts before ``0.8.16``. See the +":ref:`contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide:version policy`" section in the +Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded Contributor Guide for more details about +versioning code corresponding to a pre-release or to a specific Git commit. Post-Installation Scripts ========================= |