Re: [OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH v2] iproute2: split ip to individual package

["Sinan Kaya" <okaya@kernel.org>]

On 12/16/2020 6:50 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2.inc
>> @@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ do_install () {
>>  # The .so files in iproute2-tc are modules, not traditional
>> libraries
>>  INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-tc = "dev-so"
>>  
>> -PACKAGES =+ "\
>> +IPROUTE2_PACKAGES =+ "\
>>      ${PN}-devlink \
>>      ${PN}-genl \
>>      ${PN}-ifstat \
>> +    ${PN}-ip \
>>      ${PN}-lnstat \
>>      ${PN}-nstat \
>>      ${PN}-rtacct \
>> @@ -58,12 +59,17 @@ PACKAGES =+ "\
>>      ${PN}-tipc \
>>  "
>>
>> +PACKAGES += "${IPROUTE2_PACKAGES}"
>> +PROVIDES += "${IPROUTE2_PACKAGES}"
> This doesn't look correct. Why do we need to add all the individual
> package splits to PROVIDES?
> 

I want to add iproute2-ip into my IMAGE_INSTALL and not take the rest
of the iproute2-$foo packages. If I don't add PROVIDES, build stage
fails saying nobody provides iproute2-ip.

> 
> or is there some other reason for this? This is basically the issue
> with some of the other package splits too, its not using the build time
> verses runtime namespaces correctly.

If I misunderstood something or am not doing it right, let me know.