[OE-core] [PATCH v3][0/2] Yocto Bug #6149

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 17:32 -0400, Jate Sujjavanich wrote:
> These patches add code to handle a PREFERRED_PROVIDER for a runtime
> item.
>
> The providers.py code chooses a recipe based on a runtime package to
> resolve the multiple providers warning.
>
> Then during package generation, the new image.bbclass code substitutes
> the package into PACKAGE_INSTALL that RPROVIDES the runtime item if
> the PREFERRED_PROVIDER is defined.
> 
What this doesn't do is fix the problem where one of these names is used
in a packagegroup or some other place than PACKAGE_INSTALL. I believe I
mentioned this the last time you sent patches as well.

Due to that, it would lead to gross inconsistencies in the way the
system would behave and it can't be merged as is, sorry.

Cheers,

Richard
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