On Mon, 25 May 2020, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Mon, 25 May 2020, Martin Jansa wrote:
>
> > Yes, in local.conf or distro config, both work fine. Maybe your
> > PNBLACKLIST you're trying to unblacklist is using normal assignment
> > instead of weak one? See
>
>   i just now determined that that is exactly what is happening --
> tried it with nanopb recipe from meta-oe, which contains:
>
>   PNBLACKLIST[nanopb] = "Needs forward porting to use python3"
>
> switched that to weak assignment, all good. does that imply that,
> other than in perhaps exceptional circumstances, *all* blacklisting
> should use weak assignment?

  never mind, just took a look at the commit which does exactly this.
is it worth submitting a patch to tweak the few hard assignments?

rday