Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-25 Thread Martin Jansa
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:58:23PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2011 16:56:28 you wrote: > > with layers we dont control policies of all the layers that may be used on > > top so fixing meta-oe does not solve problem completely and we can not ask > > for exclusive recipes. P

Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Thursday 25 August 2011 16:56:28 you wrote: > with layers we dont control policies of all the layers that may be used on > top so fixing meta-oe does not solve problem completely and we can not ask > for exclusive recipes. People would want to override the recipes from other > layers. Generall

Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-25 Thread Khem Raj
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> >> In my opinion the layer priority for all kind of meta data should be >> consistent and selected using bblayers.conf > > So I've thought about this more, and I don't think it is a good idea, for two > reasons: > > 1) It increases the compl

Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Tuesday 02 August 2011 16:35:12 Khem Raj wrote: > On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Chris Larson wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Phil Blundell wrote: > >> Actually, to some extent I consider it a bit of a misfeature that the > >> layer priority is specified by the layer rather than by the

Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-02 Thread Khem Raj
On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Chris Larson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Phil Blundell wrote: >> Actually, to some extent I consider it a bit of a misfeature that the >> layer priority is specified by the layer rather than by the user in >> bblayers.conf, since this makes it harder to

Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-02 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Tuesday 02 August 2011 15:27:58 Chris Larson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Paul Eggleton > > wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 August 2011 15:14:41 Chris Larson wrote: > >> as config/class priority is > >> determined by order of entries in BBLAYERS, whereas recipe priority is > >> determined

Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Larson
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 02 August 2011 15:14:41 Chris Larson wrote: >> as config/class priority is >> determined by order of entries in BBLAYERS, whereas recipe priority is >> determined by layer.conf. > > Is that a good thing though? At the moment I'm not

Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

2011-08-02 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Tuesday 02 August 2011 15:14:41 Chris Larson wrote: > as config/class priority is > determined by order of entries in BBLAYERS, whereas recipe priority is > determined by layer.conf. Is that a good thing though? At the moment I'm not convinced that it is. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel