bitbake.conf: Stop providing ${P} and ${PF} by default
For a long time we've provided PN-PV and PN-PV-PR by tweaking PROVIDES. This looks nice at first glance however it turns out to be a bit problematic. Taking make as an example where there are two versions, 3.81 and 3.82, what should "bitbake make-3.81" do? Currently it builds make-3.81 and make-3.82 and breaks in interesting ways. Is that a bitbake bug? Well, it certainly shouldn't try and run the build. Why is it building 3.82 though? Its due to finding a dependency on "make-dev" and then trying to figure out what provides it? The answer is "make" and the default version of "make" is 3.82. So arguably, finding "make-3.81" should infer PREFERRED_VERSION_make = "3.81". Doing so resolved the above problem since now "make" resolves to "make-3.81". So what about if we have Recipe A: DEPENDS = "make-3.81" and Recipe B: DEPENDS = "make-3.82" That is clearly an error, easy. So finally what about if we have Recipe A: DEPENDS = "make-3.81" and Recipe B: DEPENDS = "make" The first recipe infers the PREFERRED_VERSION_make = "3.81" and then forces that version on everything else. Is that desired? Probably not in most cases, at least not silently. As mitigation, we could print a WARNING about this happening. The final part of the problem is that we can ony figure this out within bitbake itself. That means we'd have to teach bitbake about the PN-PV format of PROVIDES which is breaking the separation between bitbake and the metadata. We can't win :(. Nobody that I know of is using or relying on this functionality so perhaps we should just remove it instead which is what this patch does. Opinions? (From OE-Core rev: a87c205bb6cefd5e1a41b8e7ef02b5bfa380e3b6) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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DEPENDS = ""
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RDEPENDS = ""
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PROVIDES = ""
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PROVIDES_prepend = "${P} ${PF} ${PN} "
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PROVIDES_prepend = "${PN} "
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RPROVIDES = ""
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MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST = "virtual/libintl virtual/libintl-native virtual/nativesdk-libintl virtual/xserver virtual/update-alternatives-native virtual/update-alternatives"
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