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should all RDEPENDS always have an attached package name?

DISCUSSION Robert P. J. Day 2 participants 3 messages Aug 11, 2014

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Robert P. J. Day

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according to yocto ref manual, all uses of RDEPENDS should be
suffixed with a package name (normally, _${PN}, of course), but i just noticed that the buildtools-tarball.bb recipe file contains:

  RDEPENDS = "${TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK}"

i suspect that still works just fine, but it does disagree with the rather adamant admonition in the ref manual.

rday

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Quoted 8 lines · Robert P. J. Day

according to yocto ref manual, all uses of RDEPENDS should be
suffixed with a package name (normally, _${PN}, of course), but i just noticed that the buildtools-tarball.bb recipe file contains:

  RDEPENDS = "${TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK}"

i suspect that still works just fine, but it does disagree with the rather adamant admonition in the ref manual.

The buildtools-tarball doesn't have any packages so in this particular case, it is acceptable (and accepted by bitbake and the QA tests).

Cheers,

Richard

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Quoted 5 lines · Richard Purdie
Quoted 4 lines · Robert P. J. Day

according to yocto ref manual, all uses of RDEPENDS should be
suffixed with a package name (normally, _${PN}, of course), but i just noticed that the buildtools-tarball.bb recipe file contains:

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  RDEPENDS = "${TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK}"

i suspect that still works just fine, but it does disagree with the rather adamant admonition in the ref manual.

The buildtools-tarball doesn't have any packages so in this particular case, it is acceptable (and accepted by bitbake and the QA tests).

ah, i should have realized this was a special case.

rday

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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

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