[OE-core] [OE-Core][PATCH] eglibc: Let eglibc-extra-nss-dev exist as empty package

[Mark Hatle]

On 4/2/13 2:27 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 20:18 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> eglibc-extra-nss-dev is a dependency for libc6-dev but
>>> the package is empty and is not created as a result target
>>> install of libc6-dev fails. This will create an empty package
>>>
>>> [Yocto Bug #4168]
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc |    4 +++-
>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>>> index 88a00a4..ca0cc4c 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>>> @@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ python __anonymous () {
>>> # Set this to zero if you don't want ldconfig in the output package
>>> USE_LDCONFIG ?= "1"
>>>
>>> -PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg catchsegv sln nscd ldd ${PN}-utils eglibc-thread-db ${PN}-pic libcidn libmemusage libsegfault ${PN}-pcprofile libsotruss ${PN} eglibc-extra-nss ${PN}-dev ${PN}-staticdev ${PN}-doc"
>>> +PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg catchsegv sln nscd ldd ${PN}-utils eglibc-thread-db ${PN}-pic libcidn libmemusage libsegfault ${PN}-pcprofile libsotruss ${PN} eglibc-extra-nss ${PN}-dev ${PN}-staticdev ${PN}-doc eglibc-extra-nss-dev"
>>> +
>>> +ALLOW_EMPTY_eglibc-extra-nss-dev  = "1"
>>
>> As discussed in the bug, I think this is an issue with smart erroring on
>> recommends which it shouldn't do. More investigation/discussion
>> therefore needed as this patch just fixes one issue and there will be
>> others.
>>
>
> I agree. If its smart issue lets fix smart instead.

Bug 3723 - smart: Performance enhancement for attemptonly and complementary installs

The purpose of this bug is to fix recommends processing to deal with failures 
gracefully.  It should simply detect the failure and then back off the one item, 
but continue the install progress.

--Mark

>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>
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