Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] oeqa/selftest/bblock/fitimage/sstatetests: Fix changing MACHINE during the test

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

On Fri Oct 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM CEST, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-10-10 at 17:36 +0200, Antonin Godard wrote:
>> On Mon Oct 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM CEST, Richard Purdie via
>> lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> > With config fragments, changing MACHINE in the test like this no
>> > longer works. Use the forcevarable override to allow it to work.
>> > This also needs a tweak to bitbake to work correctly, sent
>> > seperately. Whilst ugly, this avoids the need to start changing
>> > config fragments within oeqa right now.
>> 
>> Why not move the inclusion of auto.conf after the addfragments call
>> in bitbake.conf? Maybe this triggers another issue, but I'm just
>> wondering.
>
> It would change behaviour, there is a lot of things out there which
> assume the current ordering and we don't really want to change it as
> the breakage is potentially very subtle and not obvious.

Ok, I also assumed along those lines... thanks.

Antonin

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