[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] xpext: Allow the main package to be empty.

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 02:41:55PM -0400, Drew Moseley wrote:
> If xpext is included in a build (ie via dependency on mpv) then
> builds of core-image-sato-sdk will fail with errors such as below.
> 
> Allowing the package to be empty fixes this.
> 
>      warning: Can't install mpv-dev-0.15.0-r0 at i586: Can't install xpext-dev-1.0+5-r0 at i586: no package provides xpext = 1.0+5-r0

Isn't it better to disable this dependency from xpext-dev than to
install completely useless empty image into the image?

> Signed-off-by: Drew Moseley <drew_moseley at mentor.com>
> ---
>  meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/xpext/xpext_1.0-5.bb | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/xpext/xpext_1.0-5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/xpext/xpext_1.0-5.bb
> index d65546d..84ec5be 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/xpext/xpext_1.0-5.bb
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/xpext/xpext_1.0-5.bb
> @@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
>  
>  SRC_URI[md5sum] = "1b0cb67b6f2bd7c4abef17648b062896"
>  SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a3b06f5188fd9effd0799ae31352b3cd65cb913b964e2c1a923ffa9d3c08abbe"
> +
> +ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
> -- 
> 2.9.3
> 
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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