[OE-core] Coordinating inter-layer dependencies

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>>> > This is even worse; you end up with a package without the changes done
>>> > on the bbappend and as most bbappend files do not change PR, adding it
>>> > later won't force a package update.
>
> People use bbappends without changing PR? I've been doing a PR .= ".1"
> or whatever in every bbappend I've created since they were added to
> bitbake, and used to do the same with amend.inc. It can result in some
> long PR values, but I'd rather that than the alternative..

It would be nice to have something that WARNS or FATALS if there is no
PR modification in the bbappend. This should be required IMO but I
guess there could be some other issues that this would cause.

-M