[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Install rdependent of allarch package with same multilib variant of image

[Alexander Kanavin]

2018-07-26 11:07 GMT+02:00  <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>:
> Requiring that all variants of openssl build in order to build ca-
> certificates will have huge build time impact as it will need to build
> both multilib toolchains.
>
> At that point we'd probably be better either building allarch recipes
> twice (which I don't like), or, banning non-allarch dependencies from
> allarch recipes. If a recipe needs a non-allarch dependency we'd make
> it non-allarch. We may just have to accept the latter...

Another issue is that whatever solution ends up being merged it needs
to be understandable by a human. I remember I ripped out a large chunk
multilib-related renaming of packages (probably dealing with the same
issue) when transitioning from rpm5 to rpm4, and the reason was,
essentially, that I was not able to understand what the code is doing
and why.

Alex