[OE-core] How do I change the "Architecture" of a package?

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 09:48 +0100, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 12/31/2014 08:13 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> > On 30-12-2014 18:59, Paul Barker wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 04:24:34PM +0100, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> >>> What if the architecture of a package was accidentally left at its
> >>> default, but it should have been "all" for example?
> >>>
> >>> Just putting "inherit allarch" or simply PACKAGE_ARCH="all" into the
> >>> recipe is not enough. You get stuck with a "more specific" older
> >>> version, so that no device wants to upgrade to the newer version
> >>> that's "all" architecture compatible.
> >>>
> >>
> >> What package manager are you using on the device? If you're using opkg
> >> it should
> >> prioritise by version not arch unless the command line option
> >> '--prefer-arch-to-version' is passed. If you're using opkg and it's
> >> not doing
> >> that, let me know and I'll look into it when I get chance to.
> >
> > It's opkg.
> >
> > But on closer inspection I noticed that the "git" version is also
> > mysteriously reset to 0, so that the package also gets a lower version
> > number instead of a higher one. Seems to be the PR server borking things
> > again or so, I'll have to investigate that next year...
> 
> Weird, something in OE killed "gitpkgv".
> 
> in the recipe, I have this:
> 
> inherit gitpkgv
> PV = "2.0+git${SRCPV}"
> PKGV = "2.0+git${GITPKGV}"
> 
> 
> $ bitbake enigma2-plugin-extensions-autobackup -e | grep PKGV
> 
> delivers correct information:
> 
> PKGV="2.0+git68+2e7a1db"
> GITPKGVTAG="0.0-68-g2e7a1db"
> GITPKGV="68+2e7a1db"
> 
> 
> But after building and deploying the package, the version number will 
> eventually end up being this one:
> 
> 2.0+git5+2e7a1db509-r0.2
> 
> 
> What in OE is replacing a perfectly good PKGV tag with something 
> completely different bearing no relation whatsoever? Even the number of 
> digits in the git tag differs from the one I put in the recipe!
> 
> Even if I put some random text into PKGV, it gets replaced.

Did something come from sstate?

Cheers,

Richard