Re: [PATCH] package-deb: Ignore circular dependencies

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 3/9/16 2:33 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 9 March 2016 at 18:19, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com
> <mailto:ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     +                        bb.warn("Package %s rdepends on itself. Ignoring
>     this dependency" % pkg)
> 
> 
> Depending on yourself seems wrong no matter what packaging backend you're using,
> even if it isn't fatal.  Maybe this should be added to the general sanity checks
> in insane.bbclass?
> 
> Ross
> 
> 

I disagree.. it's quite common for an automatic dependency to trigger a
dependency on one's self.  I.e.:

python provides /usr/bin/python

python includes a script that uses /usr/bin/python

depends system now has a provide and dependency for /usr/bin/python in the same
package.  This is 'fine'.

Since opkg/deb can't handle file based dependencies, it would be reasonable for
a dependency on /usr/bin/python to be translated to 'python'.

And now you have the python package depending on the python package.


If the package manager interface does not support this, then it should be the
package manager .bbclass that should filter out these items.

This is what we've had to do in the rpm backend... I think it's reasonable for
the deb and opkg backends as well.

--Mark