On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 18:38:18 -0800 Andre McCurdy <armccu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 2:30 PM Patrick Boettcher > <patrick.boettc...@posteo.de> 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. > > You can't directly influence the build of one recipe (ie dt-utils) by > making a change in another recipe (ie the image recipe), so the > DEPENDS and RDEPENDS style changes you have tried will not work. > Variables in the image recipe are not visible when the dt-utils recipe > is built. > > Setting PREFERRED_VERSION from a global config file is a valid > solution. In that case it's up to you to decide which global config to > use - adding to local.conf, the machine config, the distro config, a > meta layer config file will all work. Using either the distro or > machine config would be the most typical approach - depending on > whether you want to version preference to apply to one build > configuration (ie one machine) or to all your builds (ie your distro). > > An alternative solution would to be to change the priority of the > recipes in the meta layer(s) which contains the dt-utils recipes. e.g. > increasing BBFILE_PRIORITY_xxx in the layer.conf in the meta layer > with the dt-utils recipe you want to use. Thanks Andre, thanks Randy for clearing up my mis-conception of recipes and conf-files. -- Patrick. -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
