diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/__init__.py b/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/__init__.py
index e69a10f..aa946f3 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/__init__.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/__init__.py
@@ -156,6 +156,27 @@
                 return layer
     return None
 
+def sanity_check_layers(layers, logger):
+    """
+    Check that we didn't find duplicate collection names, as the layer that will
+    be used is non-deterministic. The precise check is duplicate collections
+    with different patterns, as the same pattern being repeated won't cause
+    problems.
+    """
+    import collections
+
+    passed = True
+    seen = collections.defaultdict(set)
+    for layer in layers:
+        for name, data in layer.get("collections", {}).items():
+            seen[name].add(data["pattern"])
+
+    for name, patterns in seen.items():
+        if len(patterns) > 1:
+            passed = False
+            logger.error("Collection %s found multiple times: %s" % (name, ", ".join(patterns)))
+    return passed
+
 def get_layer_dependencies(layer, layers, logger):
     def recurse_dependencies(depends, layer, layers, logger, ret = []):
         logger.debug('Processing dependencies %s for layer %s.' % \
@@ -261,7 +282,7 @@
         raise RuntimeError(msg)
     return output
 
-def get_signatures(builddir, failsafe=False, machine=None):
+def get_signatures(builddir, failsafe=False, machine=None, extravars=None):
     import re
 
     # some recipes needs to be excluded like meta-world-pkgdata
@@ -272,7 +293,10 @@
     sigs = {}
     tune2tasks = {}
 
-    cmd = 'BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="$BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER" BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER="OEBasicHash" '
+    cmd = 'BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS="$BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER" BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER="OEBasicHash" '
+    if extravars:
+        cmd += extravars
+        cmd += ' '
     if machine:
         cmd += 'MACHINE=%s ' % machine
     cmd += 'bitbake '
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/cases/common.py b/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/cases/common.py
index 9f15e05..491a139 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/cases/common.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/checklayer/cases/common.py
@@ -54,6 +54,21 @@
         '''
         get_signatures(self.td['builddir'], failsafe=False)
 
+    def test_world_inherit_class(self):
+        '''
+        This also does "bitbake -S none world" along with inheriting "yocto-check-layer"
+        class, which can do additional per-recipe test cases.
+        '''
+        msg = []
+        try:
+            get_signatures(self.td['builddir'], failsafe=False, machine=None, extravars='BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS="$BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS INHERIT" INHERIT="yocto-check-layer"')
+        except RuntimeError as ex:
+            msg.append(str(ex))
+        if msg:
+            msg.insert(0, 'Layer %s failed additional checks from yocto-check-layer.bbclass\nSee below log for specific recipe parsing errors:\n' % \
+                self.tc.layer['name'])
+            self.fail('\n'.join(msg))
+
     def test_signatures(self):
         if self.tc.layer['type'] == LayerType.SOFTWARE and \
            not self.tc.test_software_layer_signatures:
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/deploy.py b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/deploy.py
index 8333225..e14a587 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/deploy.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/deploy.py
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
             srcdir = recipe_outdir
             recipe_outdir = os.path.join(rd.getVar('WORKDIR'), 'devtool-deploy-target-stripped')
             if os.path.isdir(recipe_outdir):
-                bb.utils.remove(recipe_outdir, True)
+                exec_fakeroot(rd, "rm -rf %s" % recipe_outdir, shell=True)
             exec_fakeroot(rd, "cp -af %s %s" % (os.path.join(srcdir, '.'), recipe_outdir), shell=True)
             os.environ['PATH'] = ':'.join([os.environ['PATH'], rd.getVar('PATH') or ''])
             oe.package.strip_execs(args.recipename, recipe_outdir, rd.getVar('STRIP'), rd.getVar('libdir'),
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
index ae3fc4c..d717b6c 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
         if not sstate_mirrors:
             with open(os.path.join(conf_dir, 'site.conf'), 'a') as f:
                 f.write('SCONF_VERSION = "%s"\n' % site_conf_version)
-                f.write('SSTATE_MIRRORS:append = " file://.* %s/sstate-cache/PATH \\n "\n' % updateserver)
+                f.write('SSTATE_MIRRORS:append = " file://.* %s/sstate-cache/PATH"\n' % updateserver)
     finally:
         shutil.rmtree(tmpsdk_dir)
 
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py
index 826a3f9..0357ec0 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py
@@ -192,14 +192,15 @@
             get_branch = [x.strip() for x in check_branch.splitlines()]
             # Remove HEAD reference point and drop remote prefix
             get_branch = [x.split('/', 1)[1] for x in get_branch if not x.startswith('origin/HEAD')]
-            if 'master' in get_branch:
-                # If it is master, we do not need to append 'branch=master' as this is default.
-                # Even with the case where get_branch has multiple objects, if 'master' is one
-                # of them, we should default take from 'master'
-                srcbranch = ''
-            elif len(get_branch) == 1:
-                # If 'master' isn't in get_branch and get_branch contains only ONE object, then store result into 'srcbranch'
+            if len(get_branch) == 1:
+                # If srcrev is on only ONE branch, then use that branch
                 srcbranch = get_branch[0]
+            elif 'main' in get_branch:
+                # If srcrev is on multiple branches, then choose 'main' if it is one of them
+                srcbranch = 'main'
+            elif 'master' in get_branch:
+                # Otherwise choose 'master' if it is one of the branches
+                srcbranch = 'master'
             else:
                 # If get_branch contains more than one objects, then display error and exit.
                 mbrch = '\n  ' + '\n  '.join(get_branch)
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py b/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
index 507a230..4cf6a5a 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
         if args.binary:
             # Assume the archive contains the directory structure verbatim
             # so we need to extract to a subdirectory
-            fetchuri += ';subdir=${BP}'
+            fetchuri += ';subdir=${BPN}'
         srcuri = fetchuri
         rev_re = re.compile(';rev=([^;]+)')
         res = rev_re.search(srcuri)
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py b/poky/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
index 47a0819..adf8147 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
                 f.write('BB_STRICT_CHECKSUM = "ignore"\n')
                 f.write('SRC_URI = "%s"\n' % srcuri)
                 f.write('SRCREV = "%s"\n' % srcrev)
+                f.write('PV = "0.0+${SRCPV}"\n')
                 f.write('WORKDIR = "%s"\n' % tmpworkdir)
                 # Set S out of the way so it doesn't get created under the workdir
                 f.write('S = "%s"\n' % os.path.join(tmpdir, 'emptysrc'))
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
index a258340..09e491d 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
             # Split sourceparams string of the form key1=val1[,key2=val2,...]
             # into a dict.  Also accepts valueless keys i.e. without =
             splitted = self.sourceparams.split(',')
-            srcparams_dict = dict(par.split('=', 1) for par in splitted if par)
+            srcparams_dict = dict((par.split('=', 1) + [None])[:2] for par in splitted if par)
 
         plugin = PluginMgr.get_plugins('source')[self.source]
         plugin.do_configure_partition(self, srcparams_dict, creator,
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rawcopy.py b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rawcopy.py
index fa7b1eb..7c90cd3 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rawcopy.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rawcopy.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 import logging
 import os
+import signal
+import subprocess
 
 from wic import WicError
 from wic.pluginbase import SourcePlugin
@@ -38,6 +40,25 @@
 
         exec_cmd(cmd)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def do_image_uncompression(src, dst, workdir):
+        def subprocess_setup():
+            # Python installs a SIGPIPE handler by default. This is usually not what
+            # non-Python subprocesses expect.
+            # SIGPIPE errors are known issues with gzip/bash
+            signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
+
+        extension = os.path.splitext(src)[1]
+        decompressor = {
+            ".bz2": "bzip2",
+            ".gz": "gzip",
+            ".xz": "xz"
+        }.get(extension)
+        if not decompressor:
+            raise WicError("Not supported compressor filename extension: %s" % extension)
+        cmd = "%s -dc %s > %s" % (decompressor, src, dst)
+        subprocess.call(cmd, preexec_fn=subprocess_setup, shell=True, cwd=workdir)
+
     @classmethod
     def do_prepare_partition(cls, part, source_params, cr, cr_workdir,
                              oe_builddir, bootimg_dir, kernel_dir,
@@ -56,7 +77,13 @@
         if 'file' not in source_params:
             raise WicError("No file specified")
 
-        src = os.path.join(kernel_dir, source_params['file'])
+        if 'unpack' in source_params:
+            img = os.path.join(kernel_dir, source_params['file'])
+            src = os.path.join(cr_workdir, os.path.splitext(source_params['file'])[0])
+            RawCopyPlugin.do_image_uncompression(img, src, cr_workdir)
+        else:
+            src = os.path.join(kernel_dir, source_params['file'])
+
         dst = os.path.join(cr_workdir, "%s.%s" % (os.path.basename(source_params['file']), part.lineno))
 
         if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(dst)):