[OE-core] [PATCH] tzdata: Add tzdata-all package

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Mon Mar 18 21:08:39 UTC 2019


On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM Paul Barker <paul at betafive.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, at 17:02, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > I'd prefer that installing 'tzdata' installed everything, and then
> > there were other pieces for subsets.  We learnt this the hard way from
> > people installing "python" and wondering why bits of the standard
> > library were missing.
>
> That is a good argument. I just checked the difference in image sizes though (from buildhistory):
>
> core-image-minimal + tzdata = 8,868 kB
> core-image-minimal + tzdata-all = 15,788 kB
>
> So it's probably not an appropriate change for everyone.

Just, to align with other recipes, name the package tzdata-meta and
use a python function to generate the package runtime dependencies, so
it does not need manual updates.

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