[oe] preferred version not available

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Detlef Vollmann <dv at vollmann.ch> wrote:
> On 07/18/11 21:16, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
>>
>> NOTE: preferred version githead of linux-taurus not available (for item
>> linux-taurus)
>
>> What really drives me nuts is the last line: it clearly parsed
>> linux-taurus_githead.bb before, doesn't give me any error on it,
>> but then tells me 'preferred version githead of linux-taurus not
>> available'. It's clearly there, so why is it not available?
>
> Ok, I found the problem: PREFERRED_VERSION refers to PV inside
> the recipe, not to the part of the filename after '_'.
> As I tinker with PV inside the recipe, bitbake is actually correct
> that a PV 'githead' is not available for linux-taurus.

All variables which are typically set by the filename can be
overridden. Those are simply defaults. See the definitions of PN, PV,
and PR in bitbake.conf.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics