[oe] The tzdata package and a bug with tzdata-dbg

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Wed Mar 19 10:57:05 UTC 2008


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Holger Freyther schreef:
| On Tuesday 18 March 2008 23:32:18 Koen Kooi wrote:
| Hey Koen,
| thanks for the fast answer
|
|
|> Yes: Change RPROVIDES = "foo" to RPROVIDES_<package> and bump PR.
| Yes, this part is obvious. Now to the hard part tzdata-dbg has no
content, now
| that the RPROVIDES are different the tzdata-dbg package will be gone.

It won't, unless you removed this from bitbake.conf:

ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dbg = "1"

| The
| tricky question is:
|
| 	ipkg update
| 	ipkg upgrade

opkg ;)

|
|
| tzdata-dbg should be gone, tzdata should be installed. How to achieve
this? My
| attempt was to have an empty tzdata-dbg package that is not providing
tzdata
| anymore, so on update ipkg should try to install tzdata again....

That should work with opkg. But in your case (OM), bump PR on eds-dbus
to make sure tzdata gets pulled in.

regards,

Koen
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