[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] autoconf-archive: inherit allarch and fix package splitting

[Robert Yang]

On 11/13/2017 04:54 PM, André Draszik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 13:26 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
>> autoconf-archive is a set of common m4 macros, it should be allarch,
>> just like it is on other distros.
> 
> I have found previously that when changing a recipe to produce more generic
> output, like in this case, and the old binary package is still in deploy/,
> then the package manager would always pick the more specific version, even
> if a more recent (by package version) exists in deploy. In my case I was
> moving from PACKAGE_ARCH=${MACHINE_ARCH} to PACKAGE_ARCH=${TUNE_PKGARCH},
> but I guess it'll be the same here.

I think that it is because of the priority MACHINE_ARCH > TUNE_PKGARCH > allarch,
which is the right behavior.

> 
> What is the correct way to deal with that other that cleansstate?

There is no way to fix it except cleansstate AFAIK.

// Robert

> 
> Cheers,
> Andre'
>