Re: [PATCH] package(_ipk).bbclass: fix versioned dependencies in RDEPENDS et al.

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>]

On 01/27/2011 05:27 AM, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> * explode_deps() changed its behavior to omit version information
>   when the function was removed from OE in favor of BitBake's
>   implementation in March 2010. Since then, packages didn't contain
>   versioned runtime dependencies.
> 
>   See commit 89b7e433719f43f1c36c76cb8856d559014e99bc
> 
>   The solution is to switch to bb.utils.explode_dep_versions(), as
>   already used by package_rpm.bbclass.
> 
> * Two functions in package.bbclass needlessly added whitespace
>   characters to RDEPENDS_*. This was removed.
> 
> * The following statement was removed from package_ipk.bbclass:
> 
>   if not '-locale-' and not '-dbg' and not '-dev' in pkgname:
>       rdepends.append('%s-locale*' % pkgname)
> 
>   It was added in November 2008, but can never evaluate to true.
> 
>   See commit a045dfacf6f2541e0f410d9d109581f181303756
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>
> CC: Chris Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
> CC: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

Although this patch fixes the runtime dependencies for shlibs generated
versions, it doesn't cover versions specified in recipes. I'm going to
post an updated patch.

Regards,
Andreas