Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] xorgproto: Set ALLOW_EMPTY for the main package

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

On Thu, 2026-10-01 at 09:00 +0000, Mark Jonas via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> 
> We were a little brief on our explanations in the commit message. So
> we sat down to create a hopefully reproducible demo of the problem.
> 
> For reproducing with used core-image-base and local.conf containing
> the following:
> 
> MACHINE ??= "qemuarm"
> USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats"
> PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
> BB_DISKMON_DIRS ??= "\
>     STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \
>     STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \
>     STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \
>     STOPTASKS,/tmp,100M,100K \
>     HALT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \
>     HALT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \
>     HALT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K \
>     HALT,/tmp,10M,1K"
> CONF_VERSION = "2"
> DEPENDS:append:pn-base-files = " xorgproto"
> RDEPENDS:base-files:append = " xorgproto"
> DISTRO_FEATURES:forcevariable = "systemd usrmerge ext2 ipv4 vfat
> gobject-instrospection-data ldconfig multiarch"
> DISTRO_FEATURES_OPTED_OUT = "*"

You're setting RDEPENDS:base-files:append = " xorgproto" and xorgproto
doesn't exist so it isn't surprising the image generation fails as
such. Did you over simplify the reproducer?

Cheers,

Richard