[OE-core] rpmdeps, was Re: dbus-native --with-x

[Koen Kooi]

Op 1 jun 2011, om 20:55 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:

> On 6/1/11 12:08 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:58 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>> On 6/1/11 11:54 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:48 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>>>> So in the above, perl and python are really the only items that could be disabled.
>>>> 
>>>> Just to be clear, in the list you mentioned, were you talking about the
>>>> usage of rpm-native for rpmdeps, or the usage by package_rpm.bbclass
>>>> itself?
>>> 
>>> I was talking about rpm-native recipe in general, and how it's used.
>>> 
>>> rpmdeps requires a good chunk of the rpm infrastructure (even if we don't end up
>>> using rpmbuild or rpm commands during the build..)
>> 
>> Do you happen to have a list of what exactly rpmdeps does require?
>> Based on the descriptions you gave before, I'm guessing that it probably
>> doesn't need openssl (since, afaik, it doesn't do any signing) or pcre
>> (since it isn't building any packages) or acl, attr, bzip and zlib
>> (since it also isn't installing anything).  
> 
> rpmdeps uses, according to ldd:
> 
>        linux-vdso.so.1
>        librpm-5.4.so
>        librpmdb-5.4.so
>        librpmio-5.4.so
>        librpmmisc-5.4.so
>        libm.so.6
>        libdl.so.2
>        libacl.so.1
>        libattr.so.1
>        libpcreposix.so.0
>        libdb-5.1.so
>        libmagic.so.1
>        liblzma.so.5
>        libbz2.so.0
>        libz.so.1
>        libpthread.so.0
>        librt.so.1
>        libelf.so.1
>        libpopt.so.0
>        libssl.so.0.9.8
>        libcrypto.so.0.9.8
>        libpcre.so.0
>        libc.so.6
>        libgcc_s.so.1
>        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003c51800000)
> 
> The issue is that it uses the librpm, librpmdb, librpmio, and librpmmisc
> libraries.  These libraries provide and use all of the rest of the components.


What is rpmdeps actually used for in package.bbclass when you're not using rpm as package format?

regards,

Koen