[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Tue Mar 3 09:19:32 UTC 2015


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Martin Jansa schreef op 02-03-15 om 11:26:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:22:30AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: Martin Jansa
> schreef op 02-03-15 om 09:02:
>>>> * useful to run our qemu* builds inside VirtualBox
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com> --- 
>>>> .../vboxguestdrivers/Makefile.utils                | 43
>>>> ++++++++++++++ .../vboxguestdrivers/vboxguestdrivers_4.3.22.bb    |
>>>> 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
>>>> +PACKAGES += "kernel-module-vboxguest kernel-module-vboxsf 
>>>> kernel-module-vboxvideo" +RDEPENDS_${PN} +=
>>>> "kernel-module-vboxguest kernel-module-vboxsf
>>>> kernel-module-vboxvideo"
> 
> Please don't ever RDEPEND on kernel modules, even when the recipe will
> build them, it sets a bad precedent.
> 
>> I think it makes sense in this case.. nobody will ever include them in 
>> kernel image and vboxguestdrivers utils don't make much sense without 
>> the modules installed.

I agree completely with that, my objection is setting a bad precedent that
people will copy/paste into other recipes.
I see v2 has RRECOMMENDS, thank you for changing it.

regards,

Koen

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