Re: [PATCH 13/18] gzip: explicitly rdepend on bash

[Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod@windriver.com>]

On 13-11-29 07:48 AM, Qi.Chen@windriver.com wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>
> Make gzip explicitly rdepend on bash so that the rootfs task will
> not fail for the reason of implicit runtime bash dependency.


Can you explain why bash is needed?

Same question for the other cases where you add
bash as an RDEPEND but don't explain why busybox's
/bin/sh will not suffice.

../Randy

>
> [YOCTO #5555]
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc |    2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
> index 6ec1dae..a4eddaa 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
> @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
>
>   SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gzip/${BP}.tar.gz"
>
> +RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-target = "bash"
> +
>   inherit autotools
>
>   do_install_append () {
>


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