[OE-core] [PATCH] package-deb: Ignore circular dependencies

[Aníbal Limón]

On 03/09/2016 02:47 PM, Aníbal Limón wrote:
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> On 03/09/2016 02:33 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 9 March 2016 at 18:19, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> +                        bb.warn("Package %s rdepends on itself. Ignoring
>>> this dependency" % pkg)
>>>
>>
>> Depending on yourself seems wrong no matter what packaging backend you're
>> using, even if it isn't fatal.  Maybe this should be added to the general
>> sanity checks in insane.bbclass?
> 
> I agree that this situation could happen in other package management
> backends, i don't now if at insane class level we could access the
> dependency tree of the recipes/packages, i like the idea for more
> general mechanism.

I forget to mention will be good if also handle circular dependencies
between recipe/packages. A time ago i added this support on postinst
scripts in package_{deb,ipk} [1].

[1]
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/lib/oe?id=b2c9e7347acdfd0efe1c3dabb853d609233b61b6



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>     alimon
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>> Ross
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