Preventing RRECOMMENDS from installing

Preventing RRECOMMENDS from installing

[Anders Darander]

Is there a simple way, in a bbappend-file to prevent packages in an
RRECOMMENDS from being installed? E.g. if package foo has:
RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "bar"

I'd reluctant to rewrite RRECOMMENDS_${PN} completely, as foo sets
RRECOMMENDS using += (or =+), thus I'd like not to remove other packages
from RRECOMMENDS. 

If possible, I'd like to avoid patching the foo.bb-file, and just have a
foo.bbappend in my own layer.

I've unsuccesfully tried different variants using oe_filter_out, but
they don't seems to prevent bar from being installed.

Thanks in advance for any hints!

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB

Re: Preventing RRECOMMENDS from installing

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 11:03 +0100, Anders Darander wrote:
> Is there a simple way, in a bbappend-file to prevent packages in an
> RRECOMMENDS from being installed? E.g. if package foo has:
> RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "bar"

If you mean you just want to stop them getting installed during rootfs
construction, you can achieve that by declaring them to be
BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS.

If you want to remove the actual Recommends: header then you probably
need to write an anonymous python function to bash RRECOMMENDS around
after parsing completes.

p.

Re: Preventing RRECOMMENDS from installing

[Martin Jansa]

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:03:06AM +0100, Anders Darander wrote:
> 
> Is there a simple way, in a bbappend-file to prevent packages in an
> RRECOMMENDS from being installed? E.g. if package foo has:
> RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "bar"
> 
> I'd reluctant to rewrite RRECOMMENDS_${PN} completely, as foo sets
> RRECOMMENDS using += (or =+), thus I'd like not to remove other packages
> from RRECOMMENDS. 
> 
> If possible, I'd like to avoid patching the foo.bb-file, and just have a
> foo.bbappend in my own layer.
> 
> I've unsuccesfully tried different variants using oe_filter_out, but
> they don't seems to prevent bar from being installed.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints!

Cannot you use
BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "bar"
for your image/distro?

It was broken for some time, but iirc should be fixed now.

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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Re: Preventing RRECOMMENDS from installing

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 10 January 2012 10:08:24 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 11:03 +0100, Anders Darander wrote:
> > Is there a simple way, in a bbappend-file to prevent packages in an
> > RRECOMMENDS from being installed? E.g. if package foo has:
> > RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "bar"
> 
> If you mean you just want to stop them getting installed during rootfs
> construction, you can achieve that by declaring them to be
> BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS.

FWIW, it should be noted that this currently works for ipk packaging only.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Preventing RRECOMMENDS from installing

[Anders Darander]

* Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> [120110 11:26]:

> On Tuesday 10 January 2012 10:08:24 Phil Blundell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 11:03 +0100, Anders Darander wrote:
> > > Is there a simple way, in a bbappend-file to prevent packages in an
> > > RRECOMMENDS from being installed? E.g. if package foo has:
> > > RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "bar"

> > If you mean you just want to stop them getting installed during rootfs
> > construction, you can achieve that by declaring them to be
> > BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS.

> FWIW, it should be noted that this currently works for ipk packaging only.

Ah, good to know...
I was just about to start a new round of tests, but as we're currently
using rpm packaging, there probably is no need...

For the beginning, I'll have to stay with the local patch approach then,
and later on, investigate what it would take to implement this for rpm
packaging.

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB