[OE-core] linux-yocto and linux-libc-headers are again going backwards

[Jonathan Liu]

On 12 October 2016 at 23:18, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:54:22AM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> Either use 4.7.99+4.8-rc4 like most other recipes do or at least "4.8~rc4"
>> which might sort lower than "4.8" (but needs to be verified for all
>> packaging backends first).
>>
>> Ignoring all this completely results with what we can see in oe-core
>> now:
>>
>> ERROR: linux-libc-headers-4.8-r0 do_packagedata: QA Issue: Package
>> version for package linux-libc-headers-dbg went backwards which would
>> break package feeds from (0:4.8-rc4-r0.0 to 0:4.8-r0.0)
>> [version-going-backwards]
>
> I've noticed one more thing related to linux-yocto. Is it expected that
> only qemuarm is using 4.8 by default and (qemu)x86* is still using 4.4?
>
> meta/conf/machine/include/x86-base.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.4%"
> meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.8%"
>
> I've checked poky repository and it is using 4.8 at least for qemu* and various
> other MACHINEs, so it might make sense to use the same for nodistro for consistency?

Using bitbake and OE-core actually selects linux-yocto 4.8 for me.
Probably because x86-base.inc isn't actually used by the machine
definitions in OE-core.

I am also running into a kernel bug with linux-yocto 4.8 on x86:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10402

>
> OE @ ~/extras/poky $ git grep PREFERRED_VERSION.*linux-yocto
> bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml:     PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto = "3.10%"
> documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml:     PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.4%"
> documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml:     PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto = "3.19%"
> documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml:     PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemux86 = "3.4%"
> documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml:     PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_forcevariable = "3.4%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-lsb.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_linuxstdbase ?= "4.1%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny ?= "4.4%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.8%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemux86 ?= "4.8%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemux86-64 ?= "4.8%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemuarm ?= "4.8%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemumips ?= "4.8%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemumips64 ?= "4.8%"
> meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemuppc ?= "4.8%"
> meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/beaglebone.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.8%"
> meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/edgerouter.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.8%"
> meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericx86-64.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_genericx86-64 ?= "4.8%"
> meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericx86.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_genericx86 ?= "4.8%"
> meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/include/genericx86-common.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.4%"
> meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.8%"
> meta/conf/machine/include/x86-base.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.4%"
> meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.8%"
> meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf:QB_DTB = "${@base_version_less_or_equal('PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto', '4.7', '', 'zImage-versatile-pb.dtb', d)}"
>
> Regards,
> --
> Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
>
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