[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] talloc: rename to libtalloc and cleanup dependency mess

Christopher Larson kergoth at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 17:01:50 UTC 2015


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Jens Rehsack <rehsack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To avoid errors when building dev-images (talloc-dev is missing), and to
>> avoid
>> insane empty packages for that, rename talloc -> libtalloc as libtevent
>> shows.
>>
>> With that, remove dependencies to attr/xattr and libbsd - unless
>> explicitely
>> enabled via PACKAGECONFIG.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Rehsack <sno at netbsd.org>
>>
>
> Our recipe names should be named based on the upstream project name, not
> the library they happen to ship.
>
> Instead, either we could we should kill all the libtalloc bits in the
> PACKAGES var, and let the debian shlib renaming handle renaming talloc* to
> libtalloc*, or add a talloc-dev that pulls in libtalloc-dev & pytalloc-dev.
>

I just realized this may sound critical, but that wasn't intended. The
other changes look great, thanks for your work on making those dependencies
optional, it's good stuff.
-- 
Christopher Larson
kergoth at gmail dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics



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