[yocto] Recipe naming

Paul Barker paul at paulbarker.me.uk
Sat Aug 3 04:07:41 PDT 2013


On 3 August 2013 11:52, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> Should I call this:
>
>     "opkg_testing.bb"
>     set PREFERRED_VERSION_opkg = "testing" to use
>

Martin has just commented elsewhere that having this recipe in a meta-opkg layer
will always override the recipe in oe-core:

> You probably know about this already, but for other possible users of this
> layer:
>
> bitbake will always select "devel" version from meta-opkg layer if it has
> higher BBFILE_PRIORITY even if you put negative DEFAULT_PREFERRENCE into
> "devel" recipes. Only if you put lower-than-oe-core BBFILE_PRIORITY in
> layer.conf then it will force user to select "devel" version by
> PREFERRED_VERSION.

So maybe opkg-testing_{version} would work better.

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
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