Re: [OE-core] some trivial(?) questions about packagegroups

2021-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote: ... snip ... > PROVIDES sets up a name which can be used as DEPENDS (ie a build > time dependency) in other recipes. If PROVIDES contains more than > one name, they all just become aliases for each other. > > Since packagegroup recipes only define run

Re: [OE-core] some trivial(?) questions about packagegroups

2021-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:31 AM Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:45 AM Robert P. J. Day > > > wrote: > > > > what should be easy questions about packagegroups, inspired by my >

Re: [OE-core] some trivial(?) questions about packagegroups

2021-03-27 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:31 AM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:45 AM Robert P. J. Day > > wrote: > > > what should be easy questions about packagegroups, inspired by my > > > running across some puzzling packagegroup recipes

Re: [OE-core] some trivial(?) questions about packagegroups

2021-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:45 AM Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > what should be easy questions about packagegroups, inspired by my > > running across some puzzling packagegroup recipes in my travels > > recently. (i'll start with examples out of

Re: [OE-core] some trivial(?) questions about packagegroups

2021-03-26 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:45 AM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > what should be easy questions about packagegroups, inspired by my > running across some puzzling packagegroup recipes in my travels > recently. (i'll start with examples out of oe-core). > > first, as with any other recipe, given a

[OE-core] some trivial(?) questions about packagegroups

2021-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
what should be easy questions about packagegroups, inspired by my running across some puzzling packagegroup recipes in my travels recently. (i'll start with examples out of oe-core). first, as with any other recipe, given a "trivial" packagegroup like, say,