From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B847161DDD for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r7EKfX8Z022157 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Marks-MacBook-Pro.local (172.25.36.228) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:41:32 -0700 Message-ID: <520BEB7B.8060909@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:41:31 -0500 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Burton, Ross" References: <1376512209-11622-1-git-send-email-mark.hatle@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Update the way we control the construction of filesystems X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:41:32 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/14/13 3:35 PM, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 14 August 2013 21:29, Mark Hatle wrote: >> Debian(apt-get) does not appear to be capable of >> BAD_RECOMEMNDATIONS, > > The semantics of BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS is "these packages may be listed > as recommendations, but don't install them", right? You *might* be Correct. If it's a dependency, it -will- be installed. Helps trim some of the recommended packages from the final filesystem, without introducing potentially irreconcilable dependency failures. > able to do this with dpkg by setting the package state to > "not-installed hold". I tried that and it did not work. The hold semantic in dpkg/apt-get appears to say once it's installed keep it at a specific version. But it doesn't allow you to hold in the not-installed mode. (I'd be more then happy for someone to prove me wrong btw..) I tried everything from setting special Pin-Priorities to playing with the state file, etc.. eventually I gave up and made it a warning instead. (This is not a regression BTW, it has never worked in the past... it's just functionality someone may want.) > Ross >