[OE-core] Failed to build opkg with curl support

[Yevhen Kyriukha]

Hi Paul,

2014/1/10 Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk>:
> On 9 January 2014 12:04, Yevhen Kyriukha <kirgene at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I define "curl" in PACKAGECONFIG for opkg.
>> After that I'm getting circular dependency errors during building opkg.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Yevhen
>
> Sorry, this is a known problem.
>
> The update-alternatives script needs to be moved out of opkg, either
> to opkg-utils or to its own recipe as it is the use of
> update-alternatives that is causing the circular dependencies. This is
> what I am planning to work on next as soon as I get some time.
>
> This is required for my ongoing development work on opkg so it should
> get sorted out soon. (Future versions of opkg will depend on
> libarchive which also indirectly depends on update-alternatives).
>
> Related to this is the fact that no other providers of
> update-alternatives seem to work, again due to circular dependencies.
>
> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/45321
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Paul Barker
>
> Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
> http://www.paulbarker.me.uk

Can you give some estimates on how long the implementation of this
feature will take?

-- 
Best regards,
Yevhen