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and subject line Re: linux-2.6: [gencontrol.py] Allow additional "Provides" for
headers and source the same way as for image in featuresets
has caused the Debian Bug report #577736,
regarding linux-2.6: [gencontrol.py] Allow additional "Provides" for headers
and source the same way as for image in featuresets
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Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist
I've added three featuresets (mipl and web100) to a standard Debianized
Linux kernel source. Two of them include patches and configuration
option, and the last one (web100-mipl) is a combination of both (only
metadata and includes in defines).
Now, as I want to use the image with both patchsets enabled with tools
which depend on on feature or the other, I had to add new "Provides" to
the featureset's defines (in
debian/config/featureset-web100-mipl/defines) as follow.
[image]
(...)
provides: linux-image-2.6-web100, linux-image-2.6-mipl
configs:
featureset-mipl/config
featureset-web100/config
This way the combined featureset is properly used as a dependency for
binary packages needing one feature or the other.
As the patches modify some headers files, some of these packages also
depends on these specific headers in order to be built. Unfortunately,
there doesn't seem to be a way to add "Provides" to source and headers
packages the same way one can add them to the image. I was expecting
someting like the following to work.
[source]
provides: linux-source-2.6-web100, linux-source-2.6-mipl
[headers]
provides: linux-headers-2.6-web100, linux-headers-2.6-mipl
It is not the case, and the generated control/debian does not add these
"Provides" entries for the referred packages.
I see in gencontrol.py there is a specific handling of the [image]
section, but I also see that the headers have a specific code to handle
additional dependencies, maybe this could be extended and/or generalized
to manipulate the rest of the packages' metadata.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-web100-mipl-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Providing virtual packages like this is a bad idea. All Provides were
removed as explained in #724569.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.
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