Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Add missing RDEPENDS of initscripts-functions

[ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>]

On 01/17/2014 11:37 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:11:39PM +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> Hi Qi,
>>
>> On Monday 06 January 2014 15:27:35 Chen Qi wrote:
>>> Now that the initscripts-functions has been packaged separately,
>>> packages which may use the functions script should have a runtime
>>> dependency on it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>>> ---
>>>   meta/recipes-bsp/alsa-state/alsa-state.bb          |    2 +-
>>>   meta/recipes-bsp/apmd/apmd_3.2.2-14.bb             |    1 +
>>>   .../irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb                |    2 ++
>>>   .../nfs-utils/nfs-utils_1.2.9.bb                   |    4 ++--
>>>   meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.4p1.bb |    2 +-
>>>   meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp/ppp_2.4.5.bb         |    1 +
>>>   meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc                    |    2 +-
>>>   meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_208.bb           |    2 +-
>>>   meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb     |    2 +-
>>>   meta/recipes-devtools/distcc/distcc_3.1.bb         |    1 +
>>>   meta/recipes-devtools/tcf-agent/tcf-agent_git.bb   |    2 +-
>>>   meta/recipes-extended/at/at_3.1.14.bb              |    3 +--
>>>   meta/recipes-extended/cronie/cronie_1.4.11.bb      |    2 ++
>>>   meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_0.2.1.bb     |    2 ++
>>>   meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc        |    2 ++
>>>   meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.bb      |    1 +
>>>   .../oprofile/oprofileui-server_git.bb              |    2 +-
>>>   17 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>> Sorry to come back on this patchset again, but could we not detect
>> installation of an initscript requiring these functions in update-rc.d.bbclass
>> and just add the RDEPENDS automatically? Otherwise it's just another thing
>> people can get wrong when writing a recipe, not to mention all of the existing
>> recipes outside OE-Core that install initscripts.
> Agreed, my current list of components where I've reverted this (to get
> my images building again) is:
>
> dbus, systemd, apmd, rpcbind, nfs-utils, alsa-state, openssh, ppp,
> cronie, irda-utils

Hi Martin,

Could you please give me some more information why to revert this?
I really don't want to mess things up. So I really wish I could be aware 
of some potential problems before I start working on this.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

> To be fair, it's possible that some of these need it and I just don't
> use their script in runtime (e.g. irda-utils is included only in image
> on "spitz" MACHINE and I've never used irda here - it's pulled through
> some packagegroup because MACHINE_FEATURES have irda)
>