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

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would lowering the priority of meta-openembedded affect its ability to
>> bbappend OE-core's recipes? Is it possible to lower its priority, or to
>> raise the priority of OE core, without modifying conf/layer.conf in
>> either layer?
>
> I don't remember exact rules now, but priority is strange combination of
> layer.conf priority and order of bblayers.conf which doesn't even behave
> the same for .bbclasses and .bb files IIRC, there was discussion about
> improving this situation but I haven't seen any patches doing it since
> then. FWIW .bbappend files work as expected in any layer.

BBFILE_PRIORITY controls recipe priority. BBLAYERS order controls
BBPATH order which in turn controls bbclass/config priority, as things
stand today.
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Christopher Larson