Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
never mind, i think i finally twigged to what i need ... i can see in the include file "perl-rdepends_5.22.1.inc" how to define a required module, such as the following "Text::*" modules: RDEPENDS_${PN}-module-text-abbrev += "${PN}-module-exporter" RDEPENDS_${PN}-module-text-balanced +=

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >   i once wrote a wiki page on "bb", distinguishing between queries > > you could make before

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, one more question about all this "mapping RH/CentOS rpms to Perl modules" nonsense i'm buried in, with the hope i can resolve this once and for all and finish this off, and then i can shut up about this. in brief, a current build system creates an X86-target bootable linux system by

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Tim Orling
Robert, You did not mention meta-perl: http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-perl/recipes-perl The perl modules in meta-perl follow Debian naming: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/?q=perl When Jens

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Christopher Larson
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day < > rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > >

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
one more question on this topic before i dive back in ... it seems that some perl modules are available as both a perl recipe-generated module, and from meta-cpan. generated module: perl-module-compress-raw-bzip2 meta-cpan recipe: compress-raw-bzip2-perl_2.069.bb am i

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
following up on my original query, i'm now in the process of "mapping" a couple hundred CentOS perl rpms to their OE equivalents, and here's the process so far; just want to check that i'm going about this in a sane way. first, as chris larson suggested, use "oe-pkgdata-util" to see which

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day > > wrote: > >   i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their > > centos rpm names,

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: >   i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their > centos rpm names, and i want to map most, if not all, of them to their >

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: >   i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their > centos rpm names, and i want to map most, if not all, of them to their >

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-24 Thread Christopher Larson
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their > centos rpm names, and i want to map most, if not all, of them to their > equivalent OE package names. > > my first instinct (based on not having

[OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their centos rpm names, and i want to map most, if not all, of them to their equivalent OE package names. my first instinct (based on not having used a lot of perl OE packages) is to add both "perl" and "perl-modules" to