On 29 July 2015 at 19:05, Rehman, Abdur <Abdur_Rehman@mentor.com> 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.

Ross