[Openembedded-architecture] Package postinstall dependencies - Introduction of PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS

[Patrick Ohly]

On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 21:26 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 11:57 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> > > Does that make it clearer why we need this?
> > I certainly understand it more.. I'm just struggling with how to
> > explain when
> > someone would need this or not, to someone who hasn't hit one of the
> > extraction
> > problems.   I think that is by far my biggest remaining concern, how
> > to make
> > sure people can understand they need to do this and when...
> 
> The rules in some ways are simple, it comes down to:
> 
> """
> If your postinstall can execute at rootfs creation time rather than on
> target but depends on a native tool in order to execute, you need to
> list that tool in PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPENDS.
> """

Looking at this description, it is not at all clear to me why the
variable is named PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPENDS. From the description, the
things listed in it are dependencies of do_rootfs, not of
do_package_write_*, even if it happens to be implemented that way.

I like PS_NATIVE_DEPENDS better. Just my 2 cents.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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