Re: [poky] Unexpected package version going backwards warnings.

["Peter Kjellerstedt" <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: poky@lists.yoctoproject.org <poky@lists.yoctoproject.org> On Behalf
> Of Richard Purdie
> Sent: den 9 december 2022 17:20
> To: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>; Daniel Squires
> <dan@engineeredarts.co.uk>
> Cc: poky@lists.yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [poky] Unexpected package version going backwards warnings.
> 
> On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 17:13 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > If you do not care about updating packages on target with a package
> > manager, then you can drop SRCPV from your recipe versions.
> > Otherwise, you probably need to use a prserv, as described here:
> > https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev-manual/common-tasks.html#incrementing-a-package-version
> > which will ensure package versions would never go backwards.

Unfortunately that is only true if the real tasks are actually run.
If the setscene tasks are used, then the version can go back to 
whatever version is stored in the sstate cache. 

That said, I have also seen occasional cases where the PR goes back 
to r0.0 for no apparent reason. 

> 
> Rather than dropping, you can just disable that QA check too, something
> like:
> 
> ERROR_QA:remove = "version-going-backwards"
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

//Peter