Re: virtual/opkg-dev breaks task-sdk-native, please revert

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

Philip Balister wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 04:53 AM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:45:07 +0200
>> Koen Kooi<k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>  wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> I noticed that
>>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=eeffe0a6eee97604679cf9a3cf40ed4604ae6493 
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>>> breaks lots of things:
>>>
>>> * a dependency loop in 'bitbake task-sdk-native'
>>> * using virtual/ namespace in packages instead of recipes.
>>>
>>> I propose to revert this change and just remove the ?pkg-dev from the
>>> sdk tasks.
>>>
>> virtual/ in package space is always wrong as it blows up on at least
>> one of our supported package types.
>>
>> Acked-by: Graeme Gregory<dp@xora.org.uk>
> 
> Acked-by: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>

I'd like to make a different request.  The answer is that it should have 
been an RPROVIDES virtual-ipkg-dev like we do for other cases where we 
need virtuals in a rootfs/etc.  So lets not revert, lets fix?

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation