On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 29 July 2015 at 19:05, Rehman, Abdur wrote: > >> watchdog_5.14.bb does not inherit systemd, and so >> INHIBIT_UPDATERCD_BBCLASS does >> not get set. >> >> While trying to build watchdog with systemd in DISTRO_FEATURES but not >> sysvinit, >> following warning is observed: >> WARNING: QA Issue: watchdog rdepends on initscripts-functions, but >> it isn't >> a build dependency? [build-deps] >> >> Since sysvinit is not in DISTRO_FEATURES and INHIBIT_UPDATERCD_BBCLASS is >> not >> set, the logic in update-rc.d.bbclass goes on to add an rdep for watchdog >> on >> initscripts-functions, inside update_rcd_package(). And this results in >> the >> QA warning. >> > > When a class inherits update-rcd but not systemd, and the distro is > systemd only, update-rcd still runs (and has still run) as otherwise you > don't get any init scripts. Setting inhibit will remove the init scripts, > and the watchdog daemon won't start. I'm pretty sure this isn't what you > intended. > > Are you overriding VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts in your distro? update-rcd > adds a dependency on that when it is inherited, which by default is > initscripts, so you get your build dependency there. I suspect your distro > is overriding that variable when perhaps it shouldn't be. > I don’t think we really want initscripts installed in a systemd-only distro, particularly if systemd is built with sysvcompat enabled, as we don’t want to run the sysvinit scripts for services which are already covered by systemd proper, unless I’m missing something? -- Christopher Larson kergoth at gmail dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics