[oe] Weird behaviour with PPP

[Andreas Oberritter]

Hi Martin,

On 02/22/2011 09:11 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> 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

In that thread, if I understood correctly, Richard suggested that
packaged staging could solve the problem. But that doesn't seem to be
the case. Do you know why?

Regards,
Andreas