[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] opkg 0.1.8: respect to the arch when choose the alternatives

[Koen Kooi]

Op 25 mei 2012, om 12:02 heeft Robert Yang het volgende geschreven:

> There is a bug if we:
> 1) bitbake core-image-sato-sdk MACHINE=qemux86
> 2) bitbake core-image-sato with MACHINE=crownbay
> 
> Then several pkgs in deploy/ipk/i586 would be installed to crownbay's
> image even if there is one in deploy/ipk/core2 and we have set the
> core2's priority higher than i586, when the version in deploy/ipk/i586 is
> higher. This doesn't work for us, for example, what the crownbay need is
> xserver-xorg-1.9.3, but it installs xserver-xorg-1.11.2.
> 
> This is caused by opkg's selecting mechanism, if there are more than one
> candidates which have the same pkg name in the candidate list, for
> example, the same pkg with different versions, then it will use the last
> one which is the highest version in the list, this doesn't work for us,
> it should respect to the arch priorities in such a case.

This is a serious break with the current opkg behaviour and I don't think it's an improvement. Needing different versions for non machine specific packages indicates a more serious bug elsewhere.