[OE-core] opkg dependencies and update-alternatives

[Paul Barker]

On 18 November 2013 16:20, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:31:09PM +0000, Paul Barker wrote:
>> On 18 November 2013 11:57, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Paul: Have you any opinion of moving update-alternatives to its own
>> > repository separate from opkg? or just check it into OE-Core as its just
>> > a single script? Its not as if it really needs much from opkg at this
>> > point?
>>
>> I'd be quite happy to break it out into a separate repo. I think
>> that's better than direct inclusion into oe-core so that it remains
>> easily usable by non-oe systems.
>
> What about including it in opkg-utils repo? And maybe even providing u-a
> by opkg-utils.bb?
>
> opkg-utils.bb doesn't have any DEPENDS (Only python RDEPENDS) so it
> would be good compromise between opkg and completely new recipe.
>

I think this is the most sensible option. If u-a is put into a
separate package it shouldn't need any RDEPENDS either.

I'll send in the patches I have for oe-core, they'll need a little
more testing before they're ready to be pushed to the mainline though.

-- 
Paul Barker

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