[OE-core] Coordinating inter-layer dependencies

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Dec 1 13:02:38 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 10:59 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:37, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 13:24 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
>         > A while back I've proposed to make .bbappend without
>         corresponding .bb
>         > only big fat warning, but not fatal to parse. Now you cannot
>         even build
>         > eglibc if there is libdrm bbappend you don't care at all
>         about..
>         
>         
>         You can do this by setting:
>         
>         BB_DANGLINGAPPENDS_WARNONLY
> 
> 
> This is even worse; you end up with a package without the changes done
> on the bbappend and as most bbappend files do not change PR, adding it
> later won't force a package update.

Which is why its off by default. My point is you can do with Martin is
suggesting, its just not without its drawbacks.

Cheers,

Richard







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