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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote:

>
> 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.

  i had just started playing with oe-pkgdata-util, it obviously has a
lot of equivalent functionality to your "bb", does it obsolete "bb" at
this point?

rday

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