On Wed, 15 Nov 2023, Ross Burton wrote: > On 15 Nov 2023, at 10:13, Robert P. J. Day via lists.openembedded.org > <[email protected]> wrote: > > i swear, i once did this but now i can't find the solution for > > allowing two recipes to install duplicate files. of course, the right > > answer is to fix the recipes but a colleague just wants to get his > > build to work so what is the quickest way to do the dangerous thing > > and allow overriding installed files? > > Recipes can create the same file, but they can’t be installed at the > same time. > > If two recipes install the same filename and they’re both pulled > into the sysroot via DEPENDS then that is a fatal error and you > can’t avoid it. > > If two packages install the same filename and they’re both pulled > into an image then that is a fatal error and you can’t avoid it.
never mind, just learned this happened on Wind River Linux, not YP, *but* i swear that, some time back, this was happening to a colleague and there was some override setting that allowed it. or i'm just misremembering. rday
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