[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] networkmanager: add alias for networkmanager

[Koen Kooi]

> Op 25 mei 2016, om 10:40 heeft zhenbo <zhenbo.gao at windriver.com> het volgende geschreven:
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> On 2016年05月25日 16:11, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Op 25 mei 2016, om 09:01 heeft Zhenbo Gao <zhenbo.gao at windriver.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>> 
>>> connman get conflicts with networkmanager when building
>>> the project.
>> What’s the conflict? I’m hesitant to add yet another virtual since history has shown that most OE people can’t deal with the consequences and maintenance load for keeping the virtuals working
> Hi Koen Kooi,
> 
> Thanks for replying this mail.
> 
> When my project includes xfce and self-hosted at the same time, the compile step will fail and the error information shows that networkmanager get conflict with connman:
> ---
> ...
> Computing transaction...error: Can't install xfce4-power-manager-1.4.4-r0.0 at corei7_64: unable to install provider for networkmanager:
> error:     networkmanager-1.0.4-r0.0 at corei7_64 conflicts with connman-1.30-r0.0 at corei7_64
> ...
> The dependence relationship is:
> xfce4-power-manager --> networkmanager
> packagegroup-self-hosted --> connman

So fix packagegroup-self-hosted to not specify a connection manager, crippling the connman and nm recipes with a virtual isn’t the solution.


> 
> Thanks,
> Zhenbo
> 
>>> here introduce alias virtual/networkmanager for these
>>> two recipes, so setting PREFERRED_PROVIDER to the proper
>>> one can solve the conflicts.
>>> 
>>> this patch is for networkmanager recipe.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhenbo Gao <zhenbo.gao at windriver.com>
>>> ---
>>> meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.0.10.bb    | 1 +
>>> meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-power-manager/xfce4-power-manager_1.4.4.bb | 2 +-
>>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.0.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.0.10.bb
>>> index 831ddf0..efd4d08 100644
>>> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.0.10.bb
>>> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.0.10.bb
>>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=cbbffd568227ada506640fe950a4823b \
>>> "
>>> 
>>> DEPENDS = "libnl dbus dbus-glib libgudev util-linux libndp libnewt polkit"
>>> +PROVIDES = "virtual/networkmanager"
>>> 
>>> inherit gnomebase gettext systemd bluetooth bash-completion vala gobject-introspection
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-power-manager/xfce4-power-manager_1.4.4.bb b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-power-manager/xfce4-power-manager_1.4.4.bb
>>> index 2070db2..59e1d40 100644
>>> --- a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-power-manager/xfce4-power-manager_1.4.4.bb
>>> +++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-power-manager/xfce4-power-manager_1.4.4.bb
>>> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ FILES_xfce4-powermanager-plugin = " \
>>> "
>>> 
>>> RDEPENDS_xfce4-powermanager-plugin = "${PN}"
>>> -RDEPENDS_${PN} = "networkmanager ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','','consolekit',d)}"
>>> +RDEPENDS_${PN} = "virtual/networkmanager ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','','consolekit',d)}"
>>> 
>>> # xfce4-brightness-plugin was replaced by xfce4-powermanager-plugin
>>> RPROVIDES_xfce4-powermanager-plugin += "xfce4-brightness-plugin"
>>> -- 
>>> 1.9.1
>>> 
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