On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Detlef Vollmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/18/11 21:16, Detlef Vollmann wrote: >> >> NOTE: preferred version githead of linux-taurus not available (for item >> linux-taurus) > >> What really drives me nuts is the last line: it clearly parsed >> linux-taurus_githead.bb before, doesn't give me any error on it, >> but then tells me 'preferred version githead of linux-taurus not >> available'. It's clearly there, so why is it not available? > > Ok, I found the problem: PREFERRED_VERSION refers to PV inside > the recipe, not to the part of the filename after '_'. > As I tinker with PV inside the recipe, bitbake is actually correct > that a PV 'githead' is not available for linux-taurus.
All variables which are typically set by the filename can be overridden. Those are simply defaults. See the definitions of PN, PV, and PR in bitbake.conf. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
