From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ki5jn-0001DK-Bs for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:07:23 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ki5gL-0007xO-CN for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:03:49 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:03:49 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:03:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:03:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20080922205525.GA23908@rhein.zuhause.netz> <48D8B75D.7030302@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080912030722 Shredder/3.0b1pre In-Reply-To: <48D8B75D.7030302@gmx.net> Sender: news Subject: Re: Finer granularity for RSUGGEST X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:07:23 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Schuster wrote: > Henning Heinold schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> after fiddling with a filesystem kernel modul and his tools I noticed >> in package_ipk.bbclass that if we set RSUGGESTS Variable the suggest field >> in the ipk is set for all packages even -doc -dbg -dev and self defined >> packages. I personal >> think is not a good choice and way. In my example the kernel module only needs >> to suggest the tools package. And with the old method the tools package suggest >> it self. >> >> I have prepared a patch for ipk and deb that let us set: >> >> ${PN}_RSUGGESTS = mooo > I do not think this is a good idea. You can have the same effect just > now by doing > > RSUGGEST_${PN} = "mooo" > > Currently if you set a variable that affects the binary package you know > it will end up in all of the binary packages declared in PACKAGES. E.g. > MAINTAINER, DESCRIPTION, LICENSE and so on. > > You can easily prevent this by doing: > > PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-data" Not related to Hennings point, put overwriting PACKAGES the way pictured about will break out nice -dev and -dbg dependency changing (among other things). Only overwrite PACKAGES if you fully understand the consequences, which I think no OE developer that isn't called 'RP" does :) regards, Koen > > LICENSE = "GPLv2" > LICENSE_${PN}-data = "CC-BY-SA" > > Or am I missing an important point here? > > Regards > Robert > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel