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From: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
To: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>,
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Recipe versions and layer confusion
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 17:11:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9366fb9-a010-c450-827c-8ce5aa92f0c4@topic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67768df5-8082-3433-715c-1c2bfde6f973@windriver.com>

On 05-10-17 16:59, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 10/5/17 9:49 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>> I'm confused.
>>
>> Layer "meta-xilinx" defines:
>>
>> recipes-bsp/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware_2017.1.bb
>>
>> This recipe is too old for my liking, so I made a newer one in "meta-topic"
>>
>> recipes-bsp/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware_2017.3.bb
>>
>>
>> Much to my surprise, when I build, OE picks the 2017.1 version and not the
>> 2017.3 version.
> 
> Typically the version is selected by whichever PV is 'higher'.  However there
> are many ways to change this behavior.
> 
> The primary way is for a configuration file (often the machine configuration) to
> defined a preferred version.  I.e.
> 
>    PREFERRED_VERSION_arm-trusted-firmware = "2017.1"
> 
> Most likely there is a line like that someone in meta-xilinx.

Nope, no such line.

> 
> Additional ways would be to have a recipe define itself as never the default
> version.
> 
>> bitbake-layers show-layers reveils:
>> ..
>> meta-xilinx           /home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/meta-xilinx  5
>> meta-topic            /home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/meta-topic  6
>> ..
> 
> The layer priority does not directly affect recipe selection.  It may if you
> have two layers of the -same- version.
> 
> --Mark
> 
>> so that means that my meta-topic should win even if my PV were lower, right?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mike Looijmans
>> System Expert
>>
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> 



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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Postbus 440, NL-5680 AK Best
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-05 14:49 Recipe versions and layer confusion Mike Looijmans
2017-10-05 14:59 ` Mark Hatle
2017-10-05 15:11   ` Mike Looijmans [this message]
2017-10-05 15:19 ` Leonardo Sandoval
2017-10-05 21:44   ` Leonardo Sandoval
2017-10-05 22:10     ` Andre McCurdy
2017-10-07  9:15       ` Mike Looijmans
2017-10-05 21:18 ` Paul Eggleton
2017-10-07  2:33 ` Khem Raj

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