[OE-core] [PATCH v2] bitbake: bitbake-layers: Make show-recipes show PR

[Ulf Magnusson]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
>
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:30:27 Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>> Only PE and PV were shown, which might have been an oversight. The
>> tuples passed to version_str() contain three elements (PE, PV, and PR),
>> not two.
>
> I have to say I don't recall exactly but I think it was deliberate. We're
> talking about the recipe side here - is knowing the PR value actually useful?
> It's not like you can identify the recipe in any meaningful way by the PR
> value.

It's helpful when mapping recipes to packages at least.

Waxing philosophical, maybe PR could be viewed as a "recipe revision"
with PKGR being the "package revision", in the same sense as for
PE/PKGE and PV/PKGV. That's just an excuse I made up just now though.
I intuitively expected PR to be in there.

> Cheers,
> Paul

Cheers,
Ulf