[OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] packagegroup-core-boot: used udev-cache for sysvinit

[Burton, Ross]

On 1 July 2013 15:58, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Monday 01 July 2013 15:49:00 Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 28 June 2013 11:02, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > I appreciate the intention here but I'm not sure if this is really the
>> > appropriate place to put this; packagegroup-core-boot is supposed to only
>> > directly pull in the essentials required for booting. This will cause
>> > problems for those people using alternative device managers (e.g. busybox
>> > mdev) as well.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure where this should go, but adding it to VIRTUAL-
>> > RUNTIME_dev_manager (in the distro config?) could work. Anyone else have
>> > any better suggestion?
>>
>> How about making udev RRECOMMEND udev-cache?
>
> It's not that udev-cache might not be available, rather that packagegroup-
> core-boot shouldn't have any kind of reference to it. In any case unless udev
> is skipped somehow, an RRECOMMENDS on udev-cache will end up building udev
> even if you haven't selected it in VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager so that won't
> help.

I mean add a recommends to the udev binary package itself, so you'll
get udev-cache if you build udev (and keep the existing udev-selection
logic as-is).

Ross