Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] dbus: Let the ptest package install alongside dbus-broker

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Sat Oct 31, 2026 at 9:51 PM CET, Khem Raj via openembedded-core wrote:
> dbus-ptest RDEPENDS on dbus, both explicitly and through ptest.bbclass,
> and dbus-broker RCONFLICTS dbus. With VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dbus = "dbus-broker"
> (systemd pulls it in) core-image-ptest-dbus fails in do_rootfs:
>
>   package dbus-broker-37-r0.6.cortexa57 conflicts with dbus provided by dbus-1-1.16.2-r0.45.cortexa57
>   package dbus-ptest-1.16.2-r0.45.cortexa57 requires dbus, but none of the providers can be installed
>
> The installed tests don't use the system bus. They start private buses
> with dbus-daemon (DBUS_TEST_DAEMON) and use dbus-send, so depend on the
> dbus-daemon and dbus-tools packages instead and drop the dbus dependency,
> like avahi does.
>
> With this the images using dbus-broker as the system bus also pass all 60 dbus
> ptests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <khem.raj@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---

Hi Khem,

It looks like this does not go very well. Most builds fail with:

ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'dbus-daemon' (but /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericx86-64/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_1.16.2.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/4/builds/4953

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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