[OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

[Christopher Larson]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>   i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their
> centos rpm names, and i want to map most, if not all, of them to their
> equivalent OE package names.
>
>  my first instinct (based on not having used a lot of perl OE
> packages) is to add both "perl" and "perl-modules" to IMAGE_INSTALL,
> just to fetch and build every possible module available through the OE
> perl recipe -- that will at least give me an idea of what's available.
>
>   next, i can see the pattern in some OE package names -- i've
> verified that the Time::HiRes package is available in OE as
> perl-module-time-hires, which i assume is part of the dynamic naming
> being done in perl_5.22.1.bb.
>
>  am i approaching this the right way?
>

Could also bitbake perl, then use oe-pkgdata-util to locate the actual perl
modules in the packages, i.e. */Time/HiRes.pm.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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