From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D14C6AF69 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Jul 2013 05:16:46 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.89,692,1367996400"; d="scan'208";a="347745505" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.122.61]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Jul 2013 05:16:32 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:16:31 +0100 Message-ID: <2691932.dGi55gTP8y@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.4 (Linux/3.8.0-26-generic; KDE/4.10.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1374146123.6324.5.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [CONSOLIDATED PULL 00/40] Review and ACK X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:16:46 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Thursday 18 July 2013 12:35:04 Burton, Ross wrote: > On 18 July 2013 12:15, Phil Blundell wrote: > > Seeing this discussion makes me wonder: if the target perl hasn't > > actually been built at this point, how does rpmdeps know what package to > > add a dependency on in the first place? Does it just have some random > > hard-coded list somewhere? > > It adds a dependency on /usr/bin/perl as a file, not perl itself, as > the error is "no package provides /usr/bin/perl". Right, and at the moment this only works for RPM; I'm not sure if any of the others natively support file-based dependencies like this. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre