[poky] PR and .bbappend

[Darren Hart]

On 02/02/2011 07:17 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 2/2/11 9:13 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>>> Should .bbappend files have a PR in them?  If so, must it
>>> match the one in the main .bb file?
>>
>> All metadata in a .bbappend is essentially concatenated to the recipe.
>>   If you define PR in the .bbappend, it will override the one in the
>> recipe, which is unlikely what you want, as that loses information.
>> The better route is to do something like PR .= ".1" in the .bbappend,
>> and bump that when changing the bbappend file.
>
> I was going to suggest the same thing.  A good approach is to append a value to
> the existing PR.  (I suggest this get added as a best practice in the
> documentation on bbappend...  I'm not sure who the correct person is to point
> this out to though.)

That would be Scott R, on CC.

>
> --Mark
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