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

Jens Rehsack rehsack at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 17:08:57 UTC 2015


> Am 13.11.2015 um 18:01 schrieb Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com>:
> 
> 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.

In that case - please take me by the hand and explain a bit more detailed 

> 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*

since I have no clue what you try to guide me.

Cheers
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Jens Rehsack - rehsack at gmail.com




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