[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 02/11] Hob: Disable the handling of "NoProvider" event

[Joshua Lock]

On 15/03/12 01:31, Xu, Dongxiao wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:37 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
>>
>> On 14/03/12 02:26, Dongxiao Xu wrote:
>>> Currently for non-x86 architecture, there are un-resolved dependency
>>> issue when generate universe dependency tree. Therefore disable the
>>> handling of "NoProvider" event in Hob to enable the build for non-x86
>>> architectures. After we resolved the dependency for universe, we still
>>> need to handle this event in Hob.
>>
>> I'm not sure we'll ever be able to strongly guarantee that NoProvider
>> issues won't creep in. Would we better off coming up with a more tenable
>> long term solution?
>
> The current code is a strict check for NoProvider issue. Do you have any
> suggestion on this one? What about putting the NoProvider error in
> building time?

The ideal, from a user perspective, would I think be that any NoProvider 
recipes just aren't included in the list of available recipes/packages.

Joshua
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