[oe] [meta-qt5] fix do_rootfs for images with dev-pkgs in IMAGE_FEATURES

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 26 10:02:57 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 26 September 2013 10:51, Jack Mitchell <ml at communistcode.co.uk> wrote:
>> I ran into this problem the other day, and after speaking to Ross
>> Burton, he suggested that the better way to fix this is with:
>>
>> RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
>>
>> I'm starting to get the feeling that the dev-pkgs feature is also a
>> little broken, as it seems as though it doesn't handle cases where
>> sub-packages are installed, but the main package is not.
>
> Well, the problem is the default dependency on the main package in the
> -dev package, which happens whether or not the main package even
> exists.  That's why I prefer removing the dependency instead of
> creating empty packages just for the bad dependency.
>
agreed :)

Andreas



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