[oe] [RFC] Fix udev pulling in libvolume-id-dev

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:53:50AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> > On 15-01-09 08:41, Khem Raj wrote:
> >>
> >> On (15/01/09 07:56), Koen Kooi wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 15-01-09 07:14, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> libvolume-id-dev does not provide the actual .so library, but it
> >>>> contains a
> >>>> symlink in /usr/lib, which points to /lib/libvolume.so.0 (the host one!)
> >>>> instead of ../../lib/ one...
> >>>
> >>> That's the intended behaviours, since installing the packages will have
> >>> it point to ${libdir}/libvolume.so.0 on your device. I'm not sure if we
> >>> want to patch every package to use relative symlinks.
> >>
> >> We would use -dev packages on staged area normally to compile other apps
> >> depending on a given packge if we do not fix the symlink I think it will
> >> try to link to wrong library.
> >
> > We don't use the -dev packages to populate staging :) I keep trying to
> > convince Richard that we should use them, but he keeps coming up with good
> > reasons not to do so :)
> 
> Hmm then why do we generate them ?. We do not need these packages on
> target unless we switch to
> native development on target.

SDKs, which oddly DO let you do development vs them, so any problem
stopping us from using them for staging is a problem here.  But that's
all part of another thread RP and I need to start.  Or one of us does,
at least.

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Tom Rini