Hi all,

I'm in the middle of our organization's upgrade to the most recent version of 
poky (3.0) and I'm finding that more recent versions of recipes in our poky 
layer aren't showing up as the most recent version (bitbake -s) or even 
accessible if I set the PREFERRED_VERSION in our distro's .conf file.

For a specific example: We're trying to stick with LTS kernel releases, so we 
want to move to linux-yocto 4.19. We have 4.14 in our current codebase, but it 
was manually pulled in (we had a rather old version of poky) so it's in a 
different layer. Setting the PREFERRED_VERSION to 4.19% doesn't result in its 
use, and 4.19 doesn't even show up as an available version if I run bitbake -s. 
If I remove the 4.14 bb file, linux-yocto goes away completely as a buildable 
recipe. The only way that we've found that causes 4.19 to show up as an option 
is to add a (currently mostly empty) linux-yocto_4.19.bbappend file in one of 
the higher layers. (Note that there are 4.14.bbappends too, partially because 
of backported fixes, and partially because there are internal patches that we 
haven't moved forward to 4.19 yet)

Note that someone did manually set all the layer priorities in their respective 
.conf files in our codebase, but I didn't think that would necessarily have any 
effect on the version detection.

Can anyone offer any guidance as to what's causing this behavior? Is there 
documentation somewhere on how bitbake determines the most recent version?

Thanks!
-Sean McKay
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