[oe] Weird behaviour with PPP

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:24:28PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/22/2011 06:52 PM, Eric Benard wrote:
> > On 22/02/2011 18:22, Mickael Chazaux wrote:
> >> I have a hard time figuring out why bitbake seems to mix versions of
> >> ppp... Any ideas?
> >>
> > strange, which distro, git tag, bitbake version are you using ?
> > 
> > Both bitbake ppp-2.4.5 & bitbake -b
> > openembedded/recipes/ppp/ppp_2.4.5.bb work fine here (angstrom 2008.1,
> > armv5 target, bitbake 1.12.0).
> 
> I don't think this has anything to do with ppp. I faced the same issue
> with a local recipe, of which an older version had been built before.
> When packaging, the old version was used. A new workdir was created for
> the old version during this step and the resulting packages were empty.
> No recipe existed for this old version at that time, i.e. PR had already
> been increased to 1.0, but 0.0 was used by bitbake.
> 
> In the end, I deleted bitbake's cache and all files matching the
> package's name to get rid of the annoying problem. I think there were
> pstage packages of the old version lying around.

This wrong behavior is quite common ie after changing PACKAGE_ARCH, see:
http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg04280.html

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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