Add tryaltconfigs option to control whether bitbake trys using alternative providers to fulfil failed dependencies. It defaults to off, changing the default since this behaviour confuses many users and isn't often useful (from Poky).

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bb/runqueue.py b/lib/bb/runqueue.py
index 26e4c32f8..609514d30 100644
--- a/lib/bb/runqueue.py
+++ b/lib/bb/runqueue.py
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ class RunQueue:
             self.finish_runqueue()
 
         if self.state is runQueueFailed:
-            if self.taskData.abort:
+            if not self.taskData.tryaltconfigs:
                 raise bb.runqueue.TaskFailure(self.failed_fnids)
             for fnid in self.failed_fnids:
                 self.taskData.fail_fnid(fnid)
diff --git a/lib/bb/taskdata.py b/lib/bb/taskdata.py
index 756948641..64ab032c3 100644
--- a/lib/bb/taskdata.py
+++ b/lib/bb/taskdata.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class TaskData:
     """
     BitBake Task Data implementation
     """
-    def __init__(self, abort = True):
+    def __init__(self, abort = True, tryaltconfigs = False):
         self.build_names_index = []
         self.run_names_index = []
         self.fn_index = []
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ class TaskData:
         self.failed_fnids = []
 
         self.abort = abort
+        self.tryaltconfigs = tryaltconfigs
 
     def getbuild_id(self, name):
         """