Re: [meta-arago] [master][PATCH] mesa-demos: set default PREFERRED_VERSION

On 4/21/2026 1:28 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 08:20:52AM -0500, Ryan Eatmon wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 4/20/2026 2:55 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> From: "Denys Dmytriyenko (TI)" <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Set default PREFERRED_VERSION for mesa-demos to use the version from
>>> OE-Core when not using Arago distro. When Arago distro is used, it
>>> gets changed to our version in arago-prefs.conf
>>> This addresses the signature change issue in yocto-check-layer.
>>
>> This means we have to stay on top of this change for when they
>> change the version from 9.0.0 to something else.  We will be
>> preferring a version that no longer exists.
> 
> Yes, this is correct and rather inconvenient. But lowering DEFAULT_PREFERENCE
> won't work here, as meta-arago-distro has a higher layer priority than OE-Core
> and hence supersedes the recipe's DEFAULT_PREFERENCE.
> 
> It's either keep track of the OE-Core version or convert the recipe to a
> bbappend, like you already did.
> 
> Specifically in this case it's not so bad - OE-Core has version 9.0.0 and
> Randolph's updated local version pulls additional commits that were merged
> after the release, making it 9.0.0+git. So, when a new version comes out and
> OE-Core updates the recipe, we would anyway need to remove our local version.

True.


> 
>> Need to think on this.  Thanks for tracking down an alternative solution.
>>
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko (TI) <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>   meta-arago-distro/conf/layer.conf                         | 2 ++
>>>   meta-arago-distro/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-demos_git.bb | 1 -
>>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/conf/layer.conf b/meta-arago-distro/conf/layer.conf
>>> index 2ad036f5..af3be2b9 100644
>>> --- a/meta-arago-distro/conf/layer.conf
>>> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/conf/layer.conf
>>> @@ -39,3 +39,5 @@ SIGGEN_EXCLUDE_SAFE_RECIPE_DEPS += " \
>>>   "
>>>   HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "corkscrew getent socket"
>>> +
>>> +PREFERRED_VERSION_mesa-demos = "9.0.0"
>>> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-demos_git.bb b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-demos_git.bb
>>> index 2da3ceff..62cb0ee6 100644
>>> --- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-demos_git.bb
>>> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa-demos_git.bb
>>> @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/xdemos/glxgears.c;beginline=1;endline=20;md5=a481
>>>   SRC_URI = "git://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos.git;protocol=https;branch=main"
>>>   SRCREV = "02eae079cb0b8186064d5b194ca4cc2995f099ee"
>>> -DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
>>>   PV = "9.0.0+git"
>>>   inherit meson pkgconfig features_check
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