From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.analogue-micro.com (mail.analogue-micro.com [217.144.149.242]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FA973177 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.analogue-micro.com (Postfix, from userid 999) id 28A3E68A01C; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:12:07 +0100 (BST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on loki.analogue-micro-ltd.com X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50, DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Received: from zeus.mlbassoc.com (unknown [10.8.0.2]) by mail.analogue-micro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE12268A019; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:12:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.mlbassoc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6300F6740509; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:12:06 +0200 (CEST) To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <20160410225130.GK16135@denix.org> <570AFBA4.40201@windriver.com> <20160411014945.GL16135@denix.org> <1460363748.9308.30.camel@linuxfoundation.org> <20160411134240.GO16135@denix.org> From: Gary Thomas Message-ID: <570BB0B6.4070907@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:12:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160411134240.GO16135@denix.org> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] unique -dev package 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: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:12:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2016-04-11 15:42, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:35:48AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: >> On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 21:49 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:19:32AM +0800, Robert Yang wrote: >>>> On 04/11/2016 06:51 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:58:13AM -0700, Robert Yang wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I think that one recipe should only have one -dev package, I'm >>>>>> not sure >>>>>> whether this is right or not, please feel free to give your >>>>>> comments, we >>>>> >>>>> I know it is already 1 year since this change. But I can't seem >>>>> to find any >>>>> discussion or any explanation to why this change was required and >>>>> what >>>>> specific problem it was supposed to fix. Please point me to a >>>>> clear reasoning >>>>> of this change. Thanks. >>>> >>>> There is only one source package, so there should be only one pack >>>> of header >>>> files, dev libs, and so on, and they should be placed in a uniq >>>> pkg. >>> >>> Since you are using "should" twice in the same sentence, can you >>> please point >>> me to a ratified RFC? >> >> I couldn't seem to see the history of this discussion in my mail folder >> but I do remember some patches along these lines. >> >> The reason for a single -dev package is that the "package chain" >> functions we have assumes this. I know there are some specific cases >> where we do have multiple -dev packages (qt4, gcc-runtime) but they are >> very much in the minority and are special cases. >> >> I'm definitely on record as saying the depchains code needs revisiting >> and redoing, preferably with a structured rethink so that we can better >> handle situations like this. Until that is done, multiple -dev packages >> can cause issues and we did remove some where there didn't seem to be >> any real benefit. >> >> Which case is causing problems for you? > > Thanks, Richard. > > I was updating some of our old recipes to work with the latest code and had to > replace dependencies on libblah-dev to blah-dev as well as -staticdev and -dbg > in several places. When tried to dig up any relevant discussion on this matter > either as a discussion or clear explanation of the problem this causes, I > couldn't find any, hence my inquiry. > You might have been thinking about my problems with -dbg packaging that currently breaks a number of dependencies. Bug #9104 -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------