Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] lib/bb: Drop BBFILE_PRIORITY support

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 06/02/2024 17:31:03+0100, Etienne Cordonnier via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Is the BBFILE_PRIORITY not controlling the order in which bbappends from
> different layers gets applied? I thought it was important e.g. when
> applying kernel configuration files (the last one to be applied override
> the previous ones).

I'd rather think this is in BBLAYERS list order

> 
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 4:56 PM Richard Purdie <
> richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 16:26 +0100, Etienne Cordonnier wrote:
> > > Hi Richard, there is a word missing in the commit message:
> > > " The functionality had a and place" -> "the functionality had a time
> > and place"
> > > Also a typo: "comparibility" -> " compatibility "
> >
> > Thanks, I'll tweak those on the branch.
> >
> > > What is the correct way to set layer priorities after this patch (I'm
> > > asking because the BSP I'm using makes use of BBFILE_PRIORITY)?
> >
> > It may set it, but what is it trying to achieve by setting it?
> >
> > As far as I know, the potential issue is needing to set specific
> > PREFERRED_VERSION entries where older recipes need to be used.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard
> >

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