[yocto] PRINC functionality workaround

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Marek,

On Thursday 26 November 2015 08:16:51 Belisko Marek wrote:
> after upgrading to jethro release PRINC functionality was removed by
> commit : a4d530bcf55f03258078c10a123e2717444e1060 on oe-core. PRINC
> functionality was used in some of our recipes so I took part from
> PRINC funtionality and put is to separate method (in bbclass) [0]

You'll have to forgive me for asking the obvious question - why aren't you 
using the PR server?
 
> I'm trying to use it in bbappend like:
> inherit veryspecial_helpers
> PR := ${increase_pr(5)} but this seems to be then evaluated as :
> u-boot/2015.07-${increase_pr(5)} which is wrong and fails.
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong with this approach? Maybe some brackets? Many
> thanks.

missing @ ?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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