[oe] "Can't install krb5-dev-1.13.6-r0 at ppc7400: no package provides krb5 = 1.13.6-r0"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   ok, i hope this issue is not trivially simple. i'm building
> core-image-minimal for qemuppc, and tossing in a bunch of other
> recipes, everything builds until:
>
> ///// start /////
> ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Unable to install
> packages. Command
> '/home/rpjday/oe/builds/qemuppc_oe_small/tmp/work/qemuppc-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/smart
> --log-level=info
> --data-dir=/home/rpjday/oe/builds/qemuppc_oe_small/tmp/work/qemuppc-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/var/lib/smart
> install -y packagegroup-core-boot at qemuppc rpm at ppc7400
> packagegroup-wrl-regular-recipes at all smartpm at ppc7400
> run-postinsts at all' returned 1:
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...
> ######################################## [100%]
>
> Computing transaction...error: Can't install
> krb5-dev-1.13.6-r0 at ppc7400: no package provides krb5 = 1.13.6-r0
>
>
> ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Function failed: do_rootfs
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/rpjday/oe/builds/qemuppc_oe_small/tmp/work/qemuppc-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.22573
> ERROR: Task
> (/home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/poky/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb:do_rootfs)
> failed with exit code '1'
> ///// end /////

  a simple solution was to add the line:

ALLOW_EMPTY_krb5 = "1"

to my local.conf. is that really the proper fix?

rday

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