From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
Subject: Re: [meta-networking][PATCH] vpnc: Runtime dependency to perl was missing
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:41:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51916BFD.5090903@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kmrj87$g8t$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On 05/13/2013 04:42 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 13-05-13 14:34, Jukka Rissanen schreef:
>> Generated package contains perl script but dependecy to perl was
>> missing.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com> ---
>> meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb | 2 +- 1 file
>> changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>> diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb
>> b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb index
>> 2ce9530..df90234 100644 ---
>> a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb +++
>> b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>> PRIORITY = "optional" LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
>> "file://COPYING;md5=173b74cb8ac640a9992c03f3bce22a33" DEPENDS =
>> "libgcrypt" -RDEPENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-tun" +RDEPENDS_${PN} =
>> "kernel-module-tun perl"
>
> I've seen a number of patches doing this and I hate it for 2 reasons:
>
> 1) the perl stuff should be looked at and split out in a subpackage whenever
> possible
> 2) it doesn't actually fix the problem, since you need to specify the
> perl-modules it needs as well.
Another way to annoy Koen :), is to suck in all the perl-modules rather
than work out which ones are really need.
Philip
>
> So patches like this drag in perl while at the same time not actually fixing
> the problem of failing runtimes, only papering over RPM bitching out
> dependencies.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-13 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-13 12:34 [meta-networking][PATCH] vpnc: Runtime dependency to perl was missing Jukka Rissanen
2013-05-13 20:09 ` Joe MacDonald
2013-05-13 20:42 ` Koen Kooi
2013-05-13 22:41 ` Philip Balister [this message]
2013-05-14 7:48 ` Jukka Rissanen
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