[OE-core] Recipe versions and layer confusion

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
> I'm confused.
>
> Layer "meta-xilinx" defines:
>
> recipes-bsp/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware_2017.1.bb
>
> This recipe is too old for my liking, so I made a newer one in "meta-topic"
>
> recipes-bsp/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware_2017.3.bb
>
>
> Much to my surprise, when I build, OE picks the 2017.1 version and not the
> 2017.3 version.
>
> bitbake-layers show-layers reveils:
> ..
> meta-xilinx           /home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/meta-xilinx  5
> meta-topic            /home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/meta-topic  6
> ..
>
> so that means that my meta-topic should win even if my PV were lower, right?
>

what does your BBPATH look like