linux-yocto: Move PREFERRED_PROVIDER check to be generic

This check ensures that when the PREFERRED_PROVIDER for virtual/kernel
changes, the previous instances gets removed correctly so when the new
instance installs files into the shared area there is not an overlap of
old and new.

[YOCTO #10278]

(From OE-Core rev: 6b67018c2c0229a91fbc55c6aafb86781caf2499)

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
index d979662a50..a5595abe8d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)"
 
 INC_PR = "r4"
 
+# Skip processing of this recipe if it is not explicitly specified as the
+# PREFERRED_PROVIDER for virtual/kernel. This avoids network access required
+# by the use of AUTOREV SRCREVs, which are the default for this recipe.
+python () {
+    if d.getVar("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", True) != d.getVar("PN", True):
+        d.delVar("BB_DONT_CACHE")
+        raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel to %s to enable it" % (d.getVar("PN", True)))
+}
+
 DEPENDS += "xz-native bc-native"
 DEPENDS_append_aarch64 = " libgcc"
 KERNEL_CC_append_aarch64 = " ${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}"