[OE-core] what is the significance of the numeric version part of 'PV = "1.0.1+git${SRCPV}"'?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, Christopher Larson wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>  
>         next (and what might be a silly question), based on the above, is it
>       possible to set absurdly misleading PV values in recipe files for the
>       same recipe, such as:
>
>         rday_1.0.bb
>               PV = "2.0"
>
>         rday_2.0.bb
>               PV = "1.0"
>
>       of course the above is wildly confusing, but is it legal? and given
>       what's written above, i'm concluding that the most "recent" recipe
>       selected by default would be "rday_1.0.bb", yes?
>
>
> It’s legal, and the default lacking any specified preference would
> be the higher PV, 2.0, which is the rday_2.0.bb recipe. Default
> version selection when nothing is preferred (and no layer priorities
> are involved in the selection) goes based on PV, not the filename.

wait, did you mean to say rday_2.0.bb? because that recipe file
explicitly sets PV = 1.0. or am i misreading something here?

rday

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