[yocto] upgrading packages in yocto

[Guilhem Marion]

Hello,


On 01/10/2018 08:21, Pandey, Kamal wrote:
> I want to upgrade some packages of poky/meta/recipes-graphics/ like weston_2.0.0.bb to weston_4.0.0.bb. Also I don't want any changes to be made in poky/meta layer. What is the best way of doing these kinds of upgradations. I think bbappend here will create problems as the SRC_URI and other variables use the PV from recipe name to fulfil some operations.
> The other thing I can do is create a weston_4.0.0.bb file in my own custom layer and work but then I don't know how to disable the older(original) weston_2.0.0.bb file.
> What will be the best method to upgrade packages. One thing to remind you that the SRC_URI is not a repository , it's a tarball repo. So I directly can't replace the SRC_URI in .bbappend file.
> Any leads regarding this will be appreciated.
You should look at layer priorities: 
https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.5/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-BBFILE_PRIORITY

If you can set your layer to take precedence (higher priority) over 
poky/meta, your weston_4.0.0.bb will be picked over poky/meta's
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Hope this helped,
Cheers,

Guilhem