[oe] creating ipks for all package dependencies

[Justin Patrin]

On Nov 30, 2007 6:15 AM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently ran into an issue where I bitbake'd subversion.  I then
> tried to install subversion from an ipkg feed, and ipkg complained
> about dependencies not being available (neon, etc).  It turns out that
> bitbake does not run the do_package_write_ipk task due to recent
> corrections in the way dependencies are handled, so the ipks for
> subversion dependencies where not in the feeds.  Richard suggested
> merging a task from poky that forces all ipk files to be generated.
> It has not been merged in OE, and to use do the following:
>
> bitbake <your recipe> -c buildall
>
> This will force ipks for all dependencies of <your recipe> to be built
> as well as the package you are building.
>

This really sounds like a bug to me....why would bitbake not build the
ipks for runtime dependencies of a package?

-- 
Justin Patrin