On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:54:47AM +0800, ChenQi wrote: > On 11/18/2013 02:57 AM, Paul Barker wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been trying to add PACKAGECONFIG options to opkg and have ran > > into a dependency loop whilst building with certain options. Enabling > > curl support within opkg requires a dependency on curl. curl in turn > > depends on ncurses (via a few intermediate dependencies) and ncurses > > uses update-alternatives causing a dependency on > > virtual/update-alternatives. > > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/update-alternatives is set to "opkg" in > > meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc and so we have a > > dependency loop if curl is enabled via the new PACKAGECONFIG options > > for opkg. > > > > I can cause the same dependency loop by setting > > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/update-alternatives to "dpkg" as dpkg > > directly depends on ncurses (which uses update-alternatives). So if > > someone wanted to use the more powerful update-alternatives from dpkg > > on a target system it doesn't look like that is currently possible. > > > > This places quite a constraint on whichever recipe PROVIDES > > update-alternatives. Going forward I'm hoping to use libarchive within > > opkg and libarchive depends on bzip2 by default which uses > > update-alternatives, which would cause the same problem. > > > > Does anyone have any clever solutions to this? Perhaps we could split > > update-alternatives off into its own recipe which should be dependent > > on very little, allowing opkg a little more freedom in its > > dependencies. > > > > Thanks, > > > > I opened a bug some time ago for this update-alternative problem. > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4836 > > It would be really helpful if you could add some input in the comments > of that bug.
FWIW: current u-a implementation provided by opkg is in OE-classic and was in older poky/oe-core provided also in standalone recipe update-alternatives-cworth http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded/tree/recipes/update-alternatives/update-alternatives-cworth_0.99.154.bb commit 44b538eedab7c255051fa3375f9f2439cd2db3dd Author: Marcin Juszkiewicz <[email protected]> Date: Wed Mar 19 15:36:01 2008 +0000 update-alternatives-cworth: dropped as they are now generated with opkg recipe -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: [email protected]
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