See links below for more details:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/21326
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/21816

Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>
Acked-by: Mike Westerhof <mwester@dls.net>
Acked-by: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
Acked-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <hrw@openembedded.org>
Acked-by: Koen Kooi <koen@openembedded.org>
Acked-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>

    This is a partial revert of aa03004ace2fabb135a6208ef8c2d2b312aa7b0b. The
    approach that was taken leads to disagreement and the change was pushed
    too early. DISTRO_PR is going to say and will be used inside the package
    creation. There will be more disucssion on the list about where to continue
    from here.

    Allow a distribution to globally bump the PR of every package
    this is useful when there was a change in the toolchain and
    every package is going to be different.

    find packages/ \( -name '*.bb' -or -name '*.inc' \) -exec sed -i s/"^PR="/"FILE_PR ="/ {} \;
    find packages/ \( -name '*.bb' -or -name '*.inc' \) -exec sed -i s/"^PR ="/"FILE_PR ="/ {} \;

Acked-By: Koen Kooi <koen@openembedded.org>

* this is not a complete list
* this still doesn't fix the pkg_postinst() type of bugs

parameter to populate-volatiles.sh to ensure that the volatiles cache
is updated (if its in use) when a package is added after the initial
boot. The update parameter is ignore is the cache is not in use and
by older versions of populate-volatiles.sh that don't support this
parameter.

  - not all versions of install create intermediate directories on a
  - regular install, the Debian one doesn't so install -d is required
  - to create the directory