[oe] [Bug 4549] A number of xorg dev packages are uninstallable

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:04:07PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
>> [ This is all also available at
>> http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4549 ]
>>
>> A number of xorg dev packages (both literally -dev and util-macros) are
>> uninstallable on the target.  The problem is that by default (with ipk)
>> any given -dev package will depend on the main package, for example
>> xproto-dev depends on xproto.  But in these packages case, there is no
>> main package (no xproto).  The following patch fixes the issue.
>
> No, it doesn't, your patch actually *breaks* the depends chaining, the  
> real fix would be to do ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1" in the recipes.

Well, they did all suddenly actually install.  I'll rework the patch per
your suggestion, make sure that works too and re-post.  Thanks.

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Tom Rini