On Tue, 2026-08-18 at 16:09 +0000, Sumanth Gavini via lists.openembedded.org
wrote:
> You are correct, and we should not have different dependencies between
> packages based on the selected backend.
>
> In RPM 4, MERGEPERFILEDEPS = 1 resulted in __find_requires %{nil} and
> __find_provides %{nil}, suppressing all autogenerated Requires and Provides.
>
> In RPM 6, use_internal_dependency_generator is no longer supported for
> v6-format packages, so the fileattr-based generators always run. The
> only way I see to suppress dependency generation is to set the
> individual fileattr macros to %{nil}. We observed incorrectly generated
> pkgconfig() dependencies on autobuilder and local builds, which led to
> these changes.
>
> Should we also suppress all autogenerated Provides in RPM 6 to match the
> RPM 4 behavior? If so, I'll need to identify the complete list of
> fileattr-based provides generators that need to be disabled
>
> Thanks to Alex and Mathieu for their testing and support throughout this
> upgrade.
Yes, I think we need to disable them.
Before we do that, I would like to understand what information this
changes and whether there are dependencies we're going to miss out
on that we really need to add to do_package.
So there are two things to work out:
- What information do we lose by turning off the rpm 4 rpmdep code in
do_package? Do we need to add/find some of it differently?
- What information do we lose by turning off the RPM 6 autogenerated
dependencies and is there any of that we need to add separately to
do_package somehow?
Cheers,
Richard
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