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From: "Sinan Kaya" <okaya@kernel.org>
To: pb@pbcl.net
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org,
	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH v4 1/3] introduce lib_subpackage
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 08:30:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7593470-039f-e4c4-e4a9-36c475cf99c0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201204110142.GV30831@pbcl.net>

+Richard,

On 12/4/2020 6:01 AM, Phil Blundell via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:28:24PM +0000, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> This subclass allows us to easily split a recipe into
>> subpackages.
> 
> "lib_subpackage" seems a slightly odd name for something that isn't
> dealing with libraries.  What's the etymology of that?

I'm open to giving it a better name. Richard pointed me to a file
beginning with lib_foo.class for where this functionality could be
hosted before.

> 
>> +    d.appendVar("PACKAGES", " " + " ".join(packages))
>> +    d.appendVar("PROVIDES", " " + " ".join(packages))
> 
> It seems a bit strange to be putting the same things in PACKAGES and
> PROVIDES.  Is that actually necessary?

I want to be able to include procps-ps without the entire procps
package. I was not able to do that without the above two lines.

> 
> p.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03 23:28 [meta-oe][PATCH v4 1/3] introduce lib_subpackage Sinan Kaya
2020-12-03 23:28 ` [meta-oe][PATCH v4 2/3] net-tools: split into binary packages Sinan Kaya
2020-12-03 23:28 ` [meta-oe][PATCH v4 3/3] procps: split into binary subpackages Sinan Kaya
2020-12-04 11:01 ` [OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH v4 1/3] introduce lib_subpackage Phil Blundell
2020-12-04 13:30   ` Sinan Kaya [this message]
2020-12-05 22:23     ` Phil Blundell
2020-12-06  0:54       ` Sinan Kaya
     [not found]       ` <164DFA8489EB0A7A.29396@lists.openembedded.org>
2020-12-09 23:47         ` Sinan Kaya

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