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On 02/21/2011 10:41 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 08:52 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I have my own kernel recipes (historical reasons...) which I
>> now have 2 versions of.  Some platforms have not yet been
>> ported to the latest version and I need to keep using the
>> older one for those platforms until the porting is complete.
>>
>> Sadly, I can't get this to work.
>>
>> Here's what I have
>>     $ tree meta-amltd/packages/linux/
>>       meta-amltd/packages/linux/
>>       ├── linux-am_2.6.32.bb
>>       ├── linux-am_2.6.37.bb
>>
>>     $ tree meta-cobra3530p60/packages/linux/
>>       meta-cobra3530p60/packages/linux/
>>       ├── linux-am-2.6.32
>>       │   └── cobra3530p60
>>       │       ├── cobra3530p60.patch
>>       │       └── defconfig
>>       ├── linux-am_2.6.32.bbappend
>>
>> I tried these settings in my machine/cobra3530p60
>>     PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-am"
>>     PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/kernel = "2.6.32"
>>
>> However, it still wants to build version 2.6.37
>>
>> What am I missing?  How can I force it to use the 2.6.32 version
>> for this machine?
>
> PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-am = "2.6.32"

That does seem to work, but only if I put it in the <MACHINE>.conf
file, not local.conf.

Why specify it one way (PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel) for the provider
(recipe basis) and then a different way (PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-am) for
the actual version?

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