[oe] deterministic OE builds - multiple providers

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 10:32 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> in trying to build my OE snapshot with a small extra bitbake
> collection to keep mildly customized .bb files across different Linux
> hosts.
> 
> In tracking down a host dependency I found that in cases where
> multiple providers are present, the behaviour is undeterministic, i.e.
> a provider is picked more or less randomly.
> 
> Can someone confirm this?
> 
> If this is the case, can we make it obiligatory to demand that in this
> case one single provider must be explicitly and unambiguously defined,
> and otherwise fail the build?

Which bitbake version is this with? Later versions should have more
deterministic handling that older versions.

Regards,

Richard