[OE-core] bug in recipe version priorities across layers?

[Andreas Oberritter]

Hi,

I have a problem with bitbake choosing the wrong version of a 
recipe. The facts are:

- I have multiple layers, including a machine layer, meta-opendreambox,
meta-openembedded and openembedded-core.
- meta-opendreambox contains wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb and 
wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bbappend.
- openembedded-core contains wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bb.
- There's no PREFERRED_VERSION statement for wpa-supplicant in any of 
the active layers. There is such a statement in another machine's 
layer, which shares the same TMPDIR, but even has a different PACKAGE_ARCH.
- There's no DEFAULT_PREFERENCE statement in any of the recipes.
- The machine I'm building for shall use the latest available version.
- The older wpa-supplicant is provided for a different machine.
- Both bitbake and openembedded-core are from today's master branches.

The problem: The machine I'm building for also picks up version 0.5.10, 
unless I eiher copy 0.7.3 from openembedded-core to my layer or delete 
version 0.5.10 from my layer. Deleting wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bbappend 
doesn't change the behaviour.

How can copying the recipe make a difference? The BBFILE_PRIORITY 
for meta-opendreambox is higher than for openembedded-core, but I 
wouldn't expect this to have an effect on recipes with different 
versions. Is this expected behaviour?

Here's a log of all lines matching wpa-supplicant of "bitbake 
-ccleansstate wpa-supplicant" with debug enabled:

DEBUG: Cache: /a/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bb is not cached
DEBUG: Cache: /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb is not cached
DEBUG: BB /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb: handle(data)
DEBUG: LOAD /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: BB /a/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bb: handle(data)
DEBUG: LOAD /a/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bb
DEBUG: CONF /a/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bb:1: including wpa-supplicant-0.7.inc
DEBUG: BB /a/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant-0.7.inc: handle(data, include)
DEBUG: LOAD /a/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant-0.7.inc
DEBUG: Appending .bbappend file /a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bbappend to /a/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bb
DEBUG: BB /a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bbappend: handle(data, include)
DEBUG: LOAD /a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bbappend
DEBUG: providers for wpa-supplicant are: ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: sorted providers for wpa-supplicant are: ['/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb']
DEBUG: adding /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb to satisfy wpa-supplicant
DEBUG: Added dependency virtual/mipsel-oe-linux-gcc for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: Added dependency virtual/mipsel-oe-linux-compilerlibs for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: Added dependency virtual/libc for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: Added dependency openssl for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: Added runtime dependency wpa-supplicant for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: Added runtime dependency wpa-supplicant-dev for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: Added runtime recommendation wpa-supplicant for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: Added runtime recommendation wpa-supplicant-passphrase for /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb
DEBUG: providers for wpa-supplicant are: ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.5.10 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.7.3 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.7.3-r7 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: sorted providers for wpa-supplicant are: ['/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb']
DEBUG: adding '/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb' to satisfy runtime 'wpa-supplicant'
DEBUG: providers for wpa-supplicant-dev are: ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.5.10 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.7.3 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.7.3-r7 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: sorted providers for wpa-supplicant-dev are: ['/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb']
DEBUG: adding '/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb' to satisfy runtime 'wpa-supplicant-dev'
DEBUG: providers for wpa-supplicant-passphrase are: ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.5.10 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.7.3 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER_wpa-supplicant-0.7.3-r7 (value None) against ['wpa-supplicant']
DEBUG: sorted providers for wpa-supplicant-passphrase are: ['/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb']
DEBUG: adding '/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb' to satisfy runtime 'wpa-supplicant-passphrase'
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_unpack
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_patch
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_install
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_populate_sysroot
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_populate_sysroot_setscene
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_listtasks
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_clean
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_checkuri
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_checkuriall
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_fetch
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_fetchall
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_build
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_buildall
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_configure
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_compile
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_package_write
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_package
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_cleansstate
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_cleanall
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_rm_work
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_rm_work_all
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_recipe_sanity
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_recipe_sanity_all
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_populate_lic
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_package_setscene
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_package_write_ipk
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_package_write_ipk_setscene
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_devshell
DEBUG: Processing /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb:do_populate_lic_setscene
DEBUG: Considering 0 (/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb, do_clean): set([1])
DEBUG: Considering 1 (/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb, do_cleansstate): set([])
DEBUG: Stampfile /a/tmp/stamps/mipsel-oe-linux/wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0.do_clean not available
NOTE: Running task 1 of 2 (ID: 0, /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb, do_clean)
NOTE: package wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0: task do_clean: Started
NOTE: package wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0: task do_clean: Succeeded
DEBUG: Marking task 1 (/a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb, do_cleansstate) as buildable
DEBUG: Stampfile /a/tmp/stamps/mipsel-oe-linux/wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0.do_cleansstate not available
NOTE: Running task 2 of 2 (ID: 1, /a/meta-opendreambox/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.5.10.bb, do_cleansstate)
NOTE: package wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0: task do_cleansstate: Started
NOTE: package wpa-supplicant-0.5.10-r0: task do_cleansstate: Succeeded

Regards,
Andreas