[OE-core] [PATCH] mime,mime-xdg: Conflict with allarch

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 13:24 +0100, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:21 AM Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 21:44 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > mime and mime-xdb classes add dependencies ( both runtime and
> > > buildtime
> > > ) on target packages, therefore recipes using allarch should not
> > > inherit
> > > mime/mime-xdg or vice-versa, this fixes subtle sstate mismatches
> > > 
> > > [YOCTO #13805]
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/classes/mime-xdg.bbclass | 5 +++++
> > >  meta/classes/mime.bbclass     | 5 +++++
> > >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Is this the right way to fix this? mime info probably is arch
> > independent, so should we be whitelisting some of the dependencies?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> Khem and I had a short discussion about this [1]. His first approach
> was to remove DEPENDS. As far as I remember the deps were added to
> avoid QA warning.
> 
> Honestly I never understood why these are spawned. If there is a fix /
> workaround this could be reduced to rdeps which an be handled for
> allarch.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/YoeDistro/openembedded-core/commit/5605a9cf78c3731e2cc055cd4f8cc88a0b3d7e26

I'd guess something like:

SIGGEN_EXCLUDERECIPES_ABISAFE += "\
  shared-mime-info \
  desktop-file-utils \
"

in layer.conf might be the correct fix. The other approach is just a
workaround.

Cheers,

Richard