[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 00/40] Review and ACK

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 18 July 2013 12:35:04 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 18 July 2013 12:15, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> > Seeing this discussion makes me wonder: if the target perl hasn't
> > actually been built at this point, how does rpmdeps know what package to
> > add a dependency on in the first place?  Does it just have some random
> > hard-coded list somewhere?
> 
> It adds a dependency on /usr/bin/perl as a file, not perl itself, as
> the error is "no package provides /usr/bin/perl".

Right, and at the moment this only works for RPM; I'm not sure if any of the 
others natively support file-based dependencies like this.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre