Re: [PATCH] lighttpd: remove fam as a PACKAGECONFIG option

From: Tim Orling <ticotimo@gmail.com>
To: Trevor Gamblin <trevor.gamblin@windriver.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lighttpd: remove fam as a PACKAGECONFIG option
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:39:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANx9H-BPG9pYWypmh26rLf0Fc-xzQyOa+-cYLYs6uRMzLh3xbA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29d0f686-48a2-ef07-aa16-39375b6b6937@windriver.com>

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:07 AM Trevor Gamblin <
trevor.gamblin@windriver.com> wrote:

> On 9/23/19 2:01 PM, Trevor Gamblin wrote:
>
> > From: Trevor Gamblin <trevor.gamblin@windriver.com>
> >
> > lighttpd builds fail if "fam" (and therefore gamin) is enabled.
> >
> > In conf/local.conf:
> >
> >      CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "lighttpd"
> >      PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-lighttpd = " fam"
> >
> > bitbake error:
> >
> >      ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'gamin' (but
> /yow-lpggp31/tgamblin/oe-core.git/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/
> lighttpd_1.4.54.bb DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
> >      NOTE: Runtime target 'lighttpd' is unbuildable, removing...
> >      Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['lighttpd', 'gamin']
> >      ERROR: Required build target 'core-image-minimal' has no buildable
> providers.
> >      Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-minimal',
> 'lighttpd', 'gamin']
> >
> > Since gamin doesn't appear to have a recipe and hasn't been
> > maintained for several years, this should be removed from the
> > list of lighttpd PACKAGECONFIG options.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Trevor Gamblin <trevor.gamblin@windriver.com>
> > ---
> >   meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.54.bb | 1 -
> >   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.54.bb
> b/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.54.bb
> > index 72990d02e5..3f9e4fec18 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.54.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.54.bb
> > @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[krb5] = "--with-krb5,--without-krb5,krb5"
> >   PACKAGECONFIG[pcre] = "--with-pcre,--without-pcre,libpcre"
> >   PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--with-zlib,--without-zlib,zlib"
> >   PACKAGECONFIG[bzip2] = "--with-bzip2,--without-bzip2,bzip2"
> > -PACKAGECONFIG[fam] = "--with-fam,--without-fam,gamin"
> >   PACKAGECONFIG[webdav-props] =
> "--with-webdav-props,--without-webdav-props,libxml2 sqlite3"
> >   PACKAGECONFIG[webdav-locks] =
> "--with-webdav-locks,--without-webdav-locks,util-linux"
> >   PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = "--with-gdbm,--without-gdbm,gdbm"
>
> While troubleshooting I learned that gamin has not been maintained for
> several years. See:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454124
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gamin
>
> Is there a reason why we'd want to keep it in the PACKAGECONFIG options
> list?
>

Gamin was dropped from oe-core four years ago:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=aa05be4882eed830c2fc91f93653223edfab2a0c

Gamin itself has not been updated since 2008.

Seems like it is safe to drop the option.

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