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On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:57 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 4/29/11 9:24 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 14:45 +0800, Kang Kai wrote:
> >> Hi Saul,
> >>
> >> When I import gs (ghostscript) from oe, I copy the whole directory of gs 
> >> from oe and put it at meta/recipes-extend/gs.  When run 'bitbake gs', 
> >> the bitbake comlains:
> 
> This is an example of an error condition that needs to be improved.  The error
> nothing provides 'gs' is misleading.  We have something that provides "gs", what
> we don't have are the dependencies of gs.  It would be really nice to correct
> the error message to indicate that, and then skip the traceback.

Yes indeed, Scott is going to work on this for 1.1
http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre