>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Barker <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 3:06 AM
>To: Tammana, Gowtham <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [meta-arago] [master/dunfell PATCH] matrix-gui-pm-
>demos: Allow empty package
>
>On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 22:54, Tammana, Gowtham <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: [email protected] <meta-arago-bounces@arago-
>> >project.org> On Behalf Of Paul Barker
>> >Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 4:38 AM
>> >To: [email protected]
>> >Subject: [EXTERNAL] [meta-arago] [master/dunfell PATCH] matrix-gui-pm-
>> >demos: Allow empty package
>> >
>> >The matrix-gui-pm-demos recipe splits its binaries into several
>> >subpackages leaving the default package empty. The dependencies for the
>> >default package are set so it makes sense to allow this empty package
>to
>> >be created.
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <[email protected]>
>> >---
>> > meta-arago-extras/recipes-core/matrix/matrix-gui-pm-demos_2.0.bb | 1 +
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >
>> >diff --git a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-core/matrix/matrix-gui-pm-
>> >demos_2.0.bb b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-core/matrix/matrix-gui-pm-
>> >demos_2.0.bb
>> >index 0116f5ea..a9ebb84f 100644
>> >--- a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-core/matrix/matrix-gui-pm-demos_2.0.bb
>> >+++ b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-core/matrix/matrix-gui-pm-demos_2.0.bb
>> >@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git/power_apps"
>> >
>> > # Make sure power submenu and app images has been installed
>> > RDEPENDS_${PN} += "matrix-gui-apps-images matrix-gui-submenus-power
>> >matrix-gui-generic-pm"
>> >+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
>>
>> Just curious, I assume that the deployment of the dependent packages is
>still
>> ensured even without this change. This just makes it apparent to the
>user that
>> the default package is empty. Or is it that the deployment of dependent
>packages
>> is broken without this.
>
>Without this change the matrix-gui-pm-demos package is not created and
>cannot be installed.
Yes, but as the package here is empty trying to understand why it needs to
be installed in the first place.
Now that the package is created, wondering if the dependencies with the
sub-packages needs to be listed as well something like
RDEPENDS_${PN} += ${PN}-<subpackages} or
RDEPENDS_${PN}-<subpackages> = ${PN}
Thanks,
Gowtham
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