[Openembedded-users] Question about choice of version for a package

[Joel A Fernandes]

Though I'd just rephrase my question a little.

> > If DEFAULT_PREFERENCE is same for given recipes then it picks the one
> > which has newer version e.g. 1.2.3 will be picked over 1.2.2
>
> [Joel]
>
> For U-boot, I noticed that some recipes have DEFAULT_PREFERENCE set to 1, but not all. If the default is 0, how does it decide that the "git" recipe has to be chosen over other versions? Is "git" given the highest priority by default?
>

[Joel]
How does bitbake break ties between DEFAULT_PREFERENCEs that are
equal? Even if it were to chose the highest version number, "git"
isn't even a number :) How would it work then? Thanks

regards
Joel