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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">OK, found the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">To achieve my objective, the right approach is to add “AGPL-3.0” to INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">This causes the build to fall back to the older version of db.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">However, I figured this out after finding the following line in poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-versions.inc:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> PREFERRED_VERSION_db-native = ${@incompatible_license_contains('AGPL-3.0', '5.%', '6.%', d)}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Is it correct that this is an absolute assignment rather than a conditional one? I think my<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">PREFERRED_VERSION_db-native assignment would’ve worked if it hadn’t been overridden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">by this one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org
[mailto:yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vuille, Martin (Martin)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> January 19, 2016 8:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> yocto@yoctoproject.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [yocto] PREFERRED_VERSION for native package<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yocto Fido<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to use PREFERRED_VERSION to select an earlier version<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of the “db” package. The build includes both db and db-native variants<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of the package.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I set PREFERRED_VERSION_db variable and this successfully changes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the version of the db package but not the db-native package.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tried also setting PREFERRED_VERSION_db-native but this doesn’t<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">seem to have any effect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What am I missing? How can I override version for a native package?<o:p></o:p></p>
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