[yocto] How to force build of a blacklisted recipe?

[Max Krummenacher]

Hi

> I'm trying to build dvb-apps recipe which is blacklisted and was removed 
> from the newer openembedded releases, but it exist in the release I work 
> with
> 
> Now when I try to build the recipe I get this error:
> 
>  >ERROR: 
> /home/oealliancebuilder/openpli-oe-core/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/dvb-
> apps/dvb-apps_1.1.1.bb 
> was skipped: Recipe is blacklisted: Fails to build with RSS 
> http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/130603/ - the recipe will 
> be removed on 2017-09-01 unless the issue is fixed
> 
> But I want to tell openembedded to override the blacklisting and build 
> the recipe anyway so I can investigate and hopefully fix the recipe. How 
> can I do that ?

You could overwrite the assignment to PNBLACKLIST in conf/local.conf:

PNBLACKLIST[dvb-apps] = ""

However, if you anyway want to work on the recipe you could simply delete
the PNBLACKLIST line in the dvb-apps recipe.

Max