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[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 14:49:24 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> Figured it out, the python3 bump and the addition of the python uuid
> dependency on util-linux, created a circular dependency making
> libselinux and util-linux build out of order.
> (6e7e733f3bb)

So, if I get it right, the circular dependency is:

 util-linux -> libselinux -> python3 -> util-linux

But wait, I realize that there is worse, with the Python libuuid thing,
we have the following circular dependency as well:

 util-linux -> python3 -> util-linux

So that last one we can fix by introducing python-util-linux, as I was
suggesting to also solve the BlueZ related circular:

  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-August/229558.html

But that first one is different, because it won't be solved by moving
the util-linux Python bindings to a separate package. To solve:

 util-linux -> libselinux -> python3 -> util-linux

then we need to create python-libselinux, which will build/install the
python bindings of libselinux. This way util-linux -> libselinux will
not pull in a python3 dependency. This should be doable, because
libselinux has separate make targets for building/installing the python
bindings.

These circular dependencies are annoying.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com