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On Tuesday 09 October 2012 06:46:02 Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-10-09 06:41, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 October 2012 06:36:23 Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> On 2012-10-08 16:39, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >>> PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN lets you put the package specifically after
> >>> -dev/-dbg/-doc/-locale and so on but before PN.
> >> 
> >> I needed to write this as
> >> 
> >>     PACKAGES_BEFORE_${PN} += "${PN}-tools"
> > 
> > Just to be clear the variable is called PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN and not
> > PACKAGES_BEFORE_PN; otherwise yes.
> 
> Indeed, that does work.  Sorry about my typo...
> 
> How did 'PACKAGES_BEFORE_${PN}' manage to work?

I'm not sure how it could have unless you have some additional statement or 
code that is getting the package into PACKAGES. By all means, change it back 
and see if your package appears in the final value of PACKAGES using:

bitbake -e recipename | grep ^PACKAGES=

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre