Re: [PATCH v2] core-image: Exclude openssh complementary packages

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, 2022-08-28 at 21:54 +0200, Pavel Zhukov wrote:
> Openssh (main) package may be marked for installation via complementary
> packages mechanism as a dependency of openssh-ptest
> and this causes conflict with dropbear [Yocto #14858] [1].
> Excluding openssh complementary packages if ssh-server-dropbear is in
> DISTRO_FEATURES fixes this issue.
> To install openssh complementary packages in the images with
> ssh-server-dropbear they may be added manually into the list because
> they will be excluded from the installation even if corresonding class
> (dev-pkg or dbg-pkgs) inherited.
> 
> [1]
> Error:
>  Problem: problem with installed package dropbear-2020.81-r0.core2_64
>   - package dropbear-2020.81-r0.core2_64 conflicts with openssh provided by openssh-8.9p1-r0.core2_64
>   - package openssh-8.9p1-r0.core2_64 conflicts with dropbear provided by dropbear-2020.81-r0.core2_64
>   - package openssh-ptest-8.9p1-r0.core2_64 requires openssh, but none of the providers can be installed
>   - conflicting requests
> (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Zhukov <pavel@zhukoff.net>
> ---
>  meta/classes-recipe/core-image.bbclass | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/core-image.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/core-image.bbclass
> index 4b5f2c99c4b..fa38ae876d0 100644
> --- a/meta/classes-recipe/core-image.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes-recipe/core-image.bbclass
> @@ -78,5 +78,6 @@ CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL = '\
>  CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL ?= ""
>  
>  IMAGE_INSTALL ?= "${CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL}"
> +PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY:append = "{@ openssh if 'ssh-server-dropbear' in d.getVar('IMAGE_FEATURES')}"

This doesn't seem to be correct syntax, e.g. no $ before {@ and I'm not
sure that is valid python?

Cheers,

Richard