Re: [PATCH] avahi: fix do_rootfs failure due to version skew

[Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>]

On 15-02-11 07:25 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On 11 February 2015 at 00:17, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> -RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "avahi-daemon (= ${EXTENDPKGV}) libavahi-core (=
>> ${EXTENDPKGV}) libavahi-client (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
>> +RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "avahi-daemon (>= ${PKGV}-${INC_PR}) libavahi-core
>> (>= ${PKGV}-${INC_PR}) libavahi-client (>= ${PKGV}-${INC_PR})"
>>
> 
> But this then breaks the hard dependencies for the avahi package.
> 
> Basically the problem is that you can't just include complex recipes in
> other recipes and expect it to work without lots of hackery.  In this case,
> the amount of hackery required to fix this and various other problems (I've
> an abandoned branch that sorts out other problems) is arguably more
> complicated that throwing all of this away and starting again.
> 
> Personally, I don't see why we have avahi and avahi-ui.  Enabling the GTK+
> tools should be a PACKAGECONFIG option that is controlled by default by
> DISTRO_FEATURES, and all the hackery deleted.
> 
> I've got a few branches that implement some of this already, I'll dig them
> out as this has been bugging me for a while now.

OK, I'll just keep a local fix for myself as required and leave it
to you guys who have a better understanding of the problem space.

BTW, Is there an open bug I can subscribe to?

Thanks,
Paul.
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> 
> Ross
>