On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 01:34:31AM +0000, Huang, Jie (Jackie) wrote: > Yeah I know it’s not good to have the empty package and we can remove > dependencies to void error, but > our customer may add the package through IMAGE_INSTALL in local.conf and > blame it fails until do_rootfs: > > ERROR: bigreqsproto not found in the base feeds (intel_x86_64 core2-64 x86_64 > noarch any all). > > Do we have a way to find out a PN package is empty at an earlier time so that > we may warn the user not > to add this package into image?
I as a customer would definitely prefer error message even later in the build then getting completely useless empty package installed in my image and blame you for installing it when I was expecting to find bigreqsproto in my rootfs. > From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.bur...@intel.com] > Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 3:40 AM > To: Huang, Jie (Jackie) > Cc: OE-core > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] xorg-proto-common: allow the empty package > > > On 1 July 2015 at 08:52, > <jackie.hu...@windriver.com<mailto:jackie.hu...@windriver.com>> wrote: > # ${PN} is empty so we need to tweak -dev and -dbg package dependencies > +# and allow ${PN} to be created empty > +ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1" > RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "" > RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})" > > As the comment and surrounding lines state, the dependencies on PN from > PN-dev and PN-dbg are already removed. What other package has a runtime > dependency on PN, and when you find it a better solution is to remove the > dependency instead of creating empty packages. > > Ross > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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