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

[Mike Looijmans]

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...

Well, changing the architecture will always fail because of a bug in the 
PR server. It resets the number to "0" when PACKAGE_ARCH changes, and 
thus breaks the upgrade path.

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Mike Looijmans