[yocto] How to request a certain version of a recipes for an image?

[Randy MacLeod]

On 11/4/18 11:55 AM, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm using the morty-release for my device.
> 
> My sources consists of different layers. Some application
> specific-layers (which contains a image-recipe), our
> BSP-provider and tooling-layers.
> 
> It now happens that in there is package (dt-utils) which has recipes in
> two different layers, with different versions.
> 
> In my image-file I request the package via
> 
>      IMAGE_INSTALL += "dt-utils"
> 
> How do I force the version of dt-utils for this image? By default it
> selects the wrong one.
> 
> Here's what I tried, by adding to the image-recipe:
> 
>      DEPENDS += "dt-utils (>= 2017.03.0)"
> 
> and
> 
>      RDEPENDS += "dt-utils (>= 2017.03.0)"
> 
> seems to have no effect. Adding the version-logic to the
> IMAGE_INSTALL-line fails to build.
> 
> What works is to add PREFERRED_VERSION to local.conf. But this is not
> committable, so I'd like to avoid it.

Can't you use PREFERRED_VERSION and commit that in one of the
layers that you control?

eg:
$ cd .../meta-virtualization.git
$ grep -r PREFERRED_VERSION .| head -1
./conf/distro/include/meta-virt-default-versions.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_python-blinker 
= "1.3"


../Randy

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> best regards,
> --
> Patrick.
> 
> 
> 


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# Randy MacLeod
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