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([2001:8b0:aba:5f3c:42f5:ee0f:6e5e:ba39]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-483c3b3471asm295631155e9.3.2026.03.02.02.57.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:57:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2bbd3ebdc7f525fc5fdb5848ec6d80c70dbb9e22.camel@linuxfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v7 1/7] package_rpm.bbclass: Drop external dependency generator to support rpm 6 From: Richard Purdie To: liezhi.yang@windriver.com, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Cc: alex.kanavin@gmail.com, mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:57:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: <8e2bf6e0befe331a0f834687317a3dcd2d735b92.1772367692.git.liezhi.yang@windriver.com> References: <8e2bf6e0befe331a0f834687317a3dcd2d735b92.1772367692.git.liezhi.yang@windriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.0-1ubuntu0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:57:44 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/232196 On Sun, 2026-03-01 at 04:25 -0800, Robert Yang via lists.openembedded.org w= rote: > From: Robert Yang >=20 > The rpm 6 doesn't support external dependency generator. Oe-core used it = for > per file dependency which was saved into pn.requires and pn.provides, but= that > hasn't been used any more since 2012 (rev: > be40f6d0bb80274366af00461112af65687a4de8), and there were no complains or > updates in the past 13 years, so just drop it to support rpm 6. This commit message is confusing. I think we need to be clear about the following: Is this file dependency information written into the existing rpms with rpm 5? After the changes, do we still have the file dependency information or is this being removed? I think you're saying there were no external users after 2012 but I'm not even 100% sure about that. Cheers, Richard