[OE-core] [PATCH] coreutils: Fix -dev package dependencies

[Khem Raj]

On 3/11/20 4:44 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> The new ptest dependencies present some challenges, in particular libmodule-build-perl
> which effectively depends on gcc. In multilib images, this results in both
> libXX-gcc-symlinks and libYY-gcc-symlinks being installed which conflict. This also
> makes little sense.
> 
> The easiest way to fix this is to disable the automatic -dev package dependencies
> and manually specify the correct ones.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.31.bb | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.31.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.31.bb
> index cba0bfe15cc..eac016319eb 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.31.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.31.bb
> @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ inherit ptest
>   
>   RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash findutils gawk liberror-perl libmodule-build-perl make perl perl-module-file-stat python3-core sed shadow"
>   
> +# -dev automatic dependencies fails as we don't want libmodule-build-perl-dev, its too heavy
> +RRECOMMENDS_coreutils-dev[nodeprrecs] = "1"
> +RRECOMMENDS_coreutils-dev = "acl-dev attr-dev gmp-dev libcap-dev bash-dev findutils-dev gawk-dev shadow-dev"
> +

this also means that any indirect dependency in future has to be added 
here manually right ? or will that situation never happen, if it will 
then perhaps a note in comments might be useful about that

>   do_install_ptest () {
>       install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
>       cp -r ${S}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
>