[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 2/2] package_ipk.bbclass: use "--force-arch" when install package

[Koen Kooi]

Op 5 sep. 2012, om 11:31 heeft Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> het volgende geschreven:

> This is for fixing the problem:
> 1) bitbake core-image-sato-sdk with MACHINE=qemux86
> 2) bitbake core-image-sato with with MACHINE=crownbay
> 
> The qemux86's PACKAGE_ARCH is i586, the crownbay's is core2, but several
> i586 packages will be installed into crownbay's rootfs though there are
> core2 packages. For example, there are:
> 
> xserver-xorg_1.11.2-r4_i586.ipk
> xserver-xorg_1.9.3-r1_core2.ipk
> 
> The crownbay.conf says:
> PREFERRED_VERSION_xserver-xorg ?= "1.9.3"
> 
> What the crownbay's image needs is xserver-xorg_1.9.3-r1_core2.ipk, but
> the xserver-xorg_1.11.2-r4_i586.ipk will be installed, this is
> incorrect.

It is the correct behaviour, though.

> This is caused by opkg's selecting mechanism: when more than one
> candidate is found, it will use the higher version one and ignore the
> arch priority.

As expected and wanted.

> we have several conf files which set the PREFERRED_VERSION_pkg = "..." ,
> but there is no such a mechanism which can let us tell the opkg to
> install the preferred version.

As pointed out before, your DISTRO needs to fix this and you should NOT break opkg in the way you are doing now.