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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 18:27 +0800, Hongxu Jia wrote:
> During packaging, check if there are any dependencies (RDEPENDS)
> on packages that have ended up empty and not produced; and if so
> produce an warn/error as soon as possible, instead of allowing
> the build to proceed up to do_rootfs and then the package manager
> reporting the package as missing.
> 
> At the moment, we use bb.persist_data as a global database to
> collect all available packages rdepends and rprovides. So in the
> do_package_qa task, while package not produced, we could compute
> rdepends chain, and report warn/error immediately.

I liked this until I saw you were using bb.persist_data. That isn't
under sstate control and will not result in deterministic builds.

Have you looked at the data saved by do_packageinfo into the pkgdata
structures? Can we not use the information on RDEPENDS and RPROVIDES
there instead?

Cheers,

Richard