[OE-core] Are RDEPENDS of depending native packages installed automatically

[Max Krummenacher]

Question is a duplicate of
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2017-February/132608.html
So discuss it there.
Max

2017-02-12 19:11 GMT+01:00 Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09 at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> Should the buildsystem install RDEPENDS of depending native packages
> automatically in the RSS?
> I.e, if a recipe DEPENDS on a native package should all RDEPENDS of this
> dependency be installed?
>
>
> I stumbled over this when trying to fix crda.
> crda.bb has
> DEPENDS = "python-m2crypto-native python-native ..."
>
> A recent update to python-m2crypto makes it RDEPEND on the python-typing
> package.
> I added to python-m2crypto recipe
> RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-typing"
> (and I created the missing python-typing recipe)
> and did expect that crda.bb now installs python-m2crypto-native and through
> RDEPENDS python-typing-native but only python-m2crypto-native is installed.
>
> If I explicitly add python-typing-native to the DEPENDS in the crda.bb recipe
> then python-typing-native is installed and crda builds fine.
>
>
> Max