Bug 3187

Summary: Useless suggestion when version not found
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Daniel Stone <daniel>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: jessica.zhang, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Daniel Stone 2012-09-27 14:11:37 UTC 
Using master of Poky git, accidentally putting the wrong version in a PREFERRED_VERSION field gets you this:

'NOTE: preferred version git of mesa-dri not available (for item mesa-dri)
NOTE: versions of mesa-dri available: 2:8.0.4 2:9.1.0+git3+60e610e0426d79fc9080df1a9ae0a6be39af1380'

Unfortunately, correcting your PREFERRED_VERSION to be '2:9.1.0+git%' fails with exactly the same message; for some reason you have to strip the epoch from PREFERRED_VERSION.

It'd be nice if PREFERRED_VERSION respected the epoch, or if the version-mismatch error message removed the epoch.
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2012-10-03 12:37:42 UTC 
All the code was there to support this but there was a small bug. Its fixed in: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=2f9328ff32cdbd67ba56a13a3a9a32820605a31f