From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp01.online.nl (smtp01.online.nl [194.134.41.31]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94B865CB2 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 17:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp01.online.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp01.online.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5D18E4CB; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:35:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (s55969068.adsl.online.nl [85.150.144.104]) by smtp01.online.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:35:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53DE72CF.5080303@topic.nl> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:35:11 +0200 From: Mike Looijmans Organization: Topic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <53DE3841.2000305@topic.nl> <1407082041.6981.42.camel@ted> In-Reply-To: <1407082041.6981.42.camel@ted> X-Online-Scanned: by Cloudmark authority (on smtp01.online.nl) Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: What does "QA Issue: ... rdepends on .. but its not a build dependency?" mean 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: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:35:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/03/2014 06:07 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 15:25 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote: >> I'm getting lots of warnings like this: >> >> """ >> WARNING: QA Issue: enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-wirelesslan rdepends on >> wireless-tools but its not a build dependency? [build-deps] >> """ >> >> What does it actually mean? What does it want me to provide here? >> >> The message in itself is correct. The package only has a runtime >> dependency. It does not require the wireless-tools package to be built >> or otherwise present on the build system. But what is the QA issue here >> and how do I get rid of the message? > > The issue is that if you built an image that just depends on whichever > recipe builds enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-wirelesslan and you try and > install that into an image without something else depending on > wireless-tools, the build will fail. > > Sometimes (like this case) these are genuine runtime dependencies and > you therefore just need to make the dependency visible to bitbake. > Sometimes these can be floating autodetected dependencies which should > wither have been in DEPENDS or turned off with PACKAGECONFIG. > > In this case I'm going to guess that the plugin is part of a > PACKAGES_DYNAMIC and hence bitbake can't see the dependency until its > too late (once the package is built). > > Adding the package name to PACKAGES would probably allow bitbake to > "see" it and avoid the problem. > > Yes, bitbake could in theory go though all the RDEPENDS/RRECOMMENDS_* > variables and try and guess which ones to look at however it would kill > parsing time :/. And in this particular case, even that would not help - the dependencies are being calculated after the "install" task has completed. There's code in the recipe that parses the output of the plugins and then sets a bunch of RDEPENDS and similar values for the package. I think the easy workaround here would be to just add it to the DEPENDS list - this particular recipe has been ported along from ancient OE, and it already has to wait for tons of other things, because it builds about a hundres useless plugins. The newer plugin recipes tend to have a recipe each, so they don't cause this kind of problems. -- Mike Looijmans