Alpine APKBUILDs have the concept of "provider priorities" that affect
the choice of the provider to install when multiple packages provide
a virtual package.
One use case for this is to allow installation of different firmware
versions. bq-paella can run unsigned firmware, therefore you have the
choice between using the original firmware from the manufacturer, or
a slightly newer version from Qualcomm for the Dragonboard 410c.
We add provides="firmware-qcom-msm8916-wcnss" (the "virtual package")
to both firmware-qcom-db410c-wcnss and firmware-bq-picmt-wcnss.
At this point, attempting to install "firmware-qcom-msm8916-wcnss"
would still fail with apk. (Because it does not know which provider
to install.)
To pick a default we can set e.g. provider_priority=100 for
firmware-qcom-db410c-wcnss (the slightly newer version).
In that case, firmware-qcom-db410c-wcnss should be installed by default.
However, the user can choose to do "apk add firmware-bq-picmt-wcnss"
to override the default choice in case of problems. In that case,
the conflicting firmware-qcom-db410c-wcnss will be automatically removed.
At the moment, pmbootstrap does not respect the "provider_priority" at all.
In the above case, it would always install "firmware-bq-picmt-wcnss"
during "pmbootstrap install" since that has the shortest name.
Extend the pmbootstrap code to pick a provider with the highest priority
(if any of the providers has a priority set).
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