From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpanel8.indieserve.net (cpanel8.indieserve.net [199.212.143.3]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.18318.1617005312979566834 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 01:08:33 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.3, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) Received: from bras-base-otwaon0916w-grc-67-70-50-7-189.dsl.bell.ca ([70.50.7.189]:48298 helo=fedora) by cpanel8.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lQmwo-00APmb-KR; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:08:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:08:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: Andre McCurdy cc: OE Core mailing list Subject: Re: [OE-core] some trivial(?) questions about packagegroups In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <233e2887-28df-4231-5cbb-6dea4d63fa@crashcourse.ca> References: <117b58d-f7c6-6187-dc33-66d75292cc58@crashcourse.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel8.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel8.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel8.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 time dependencies, > nothing should have a build time dependency on a packagegroup > recipe... and so there's no obvious reason to set PROVIDES to > anything. Leaving the default will be fine (although it won't be > used for anything). can someone verify that packagegroup recipe files indeed do not need a PROVIDES line? if not, i can submit a patch to toss them from meta-openembedded as well. it seems(?) fairly obvious that those lines are superfluous, but i've been surprised before. rday