From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Francesco Del Degan <f.deldegan@endian.com>
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Package specific version dependencies
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:07:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1711663.0D350BQnql@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iozjfe3p.fsf@endian.com>
Hi Francesco,
On Tuesday 06 August 2013 09:55:06 Francesco Del Degan wrote:
> Playing with RDEPENDS variable i'm facing the needs to
> specify a dependency based on specific version of a package
> (greather than, in my specific case).
>
> The underlying package managers supports declaring dependencies
> including version relationships, for example:
>
> Rpm: Requires: package_xxx >= 1.0.27
> Deb: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1)
> Okpg: Depends: xfree (>= 6.0), glib2
>
> Is this feature just missing in yocto or it's explicitly denied
> for some reason?
This should work, in fact we use it (with =) in conjunction with EXTENDPKGV
when we want to force packages from the same recipe to upgrade in lock-step.
Have you tried adding these specifications to an RDEPENDS value?
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-06 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-06 7:55 Package specific version dependencies Francesco Del Degan
2013-08-06 9:07 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2013-08-06 9:28 ` Francesco Del Degan
2013-08-06 12:50 ` Mark Hatle
2013-08-13 8:28 ` Francesco Del Degan
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