Re: [PATCH 1/3] python: don't wipe RDEPENDS when parsing manifest

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 12:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> We want to allow the main recipe to extend RDEPENDS directly, so
> don't wipe
> RDEPENDS when reading the manifest.
> 
> This fixes the missing python-misc dependency from python-modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.6.bb | 1 -
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.15.bb | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.6.bb
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.6.bb
> index e1796581342..489baa294fd 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.6.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.6.bb
> @@ -285,7 +285,6 @@ python(){
>              for value in python_manifest[key]['cached']:
>                      d.appendVar('FILES_' + pypackage, ' ' + value)
>  
> -        d.setVar('RDEPENDS_' + pypackage, '')
>          for value in python_manifest[key]['rdepends']:
>              # Make it work with or without $PN
>              if '${PN}' in value:
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.15.bb
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.15.bb
> index 472c1da4bf7..f30d3f4d25c 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.15.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.15.bb
> @@ -240,7 +240,6 @@ python(){
>                  if value.endswith('.py'):
>                      d.appendVar('FILES_' + pypackage, ' ' + value +
> 'c')
>  
> -        d.setVar('RDEPENDS_' + pypackage, '')
>          for value in python_manifest[key]['rdepends']:
>              # Make it work with or without $PN
>              if '${PN}' in value:

FWIW its actually this patch which is causing the build failures...

I did remember that rpm may detect python scripts and add a python
dependency which may be confusing things...

Cheers,

Richard