Failed to build opkg with curl support

Failed to build opkg with curl support

[Yevhen Kyriukha]

I define "curl" in PACKAGECONFIG for opkg.
After that I'm getting circular dependency errors during building opkg.

Best regards,
Yevhen

Re: Failed to build opkg with curl support

[Paul Barker]

On 9 January 2014 12:04, Yevhen Kyriukha <kirgene@gmail.com> wrote:
> I define "curl" in PACKAGECONFIG for opkg.
> After that I'm getting circular dependency errors during building opkg.
>
> Best regards,
> Yevhen

Sorry, this is a known problem.

The update-alternatives script needs to be moved out of opkg, either
to opkg-utils or to its own recipe as it is the use of
update-alternatives that is causing the circular dependencies. This is
what I am planning to work on next as soon as I get some time.

This is required for my ongoing development work on opkg so it should
get sorted out soon. (Future versions of opkg will depend on
libarchive which also indirectly depends on update-alternatives).

Related to this is the fact that no other providers of
update-alternatives seem to work, again due to circular dependencies.

See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/45321

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul@paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk

Re: Failed to build opkg with curl support

[Yevhen Kyriukha]

Hi Paul,

2014/1/10 Paul Barker <paul@paulbarker.me.uk>:
> On 9 January 2014 12:04, Yevhen Kyriukha <kirgene@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I define "curl" in PACKAGECONFIG for opkg.
>> After that I'm getting circular dependency errors during building opkg.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Yevhen
>
> Sorry, this is a known problem.
>
> The update-alternatives script needs to be moved out of opkg, either
> to opkg-utils or to its own recipe as it is the use of
> update-alternatives that is causing the circular dependencies. This is
> what I am planning to work on next as soon as I get some time.
>
> This is required for my ongoing development work on opkg so it should
> get sorted out soon. (Future versions of opkg will depend on
> libarchive which also indirectly depends on update-alternatives).
>
> Related to this is the fact that no other providers of
> update-alternatives seem to work, again due to circular dependencies.
>
> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/45321
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Paul Barker
>
> Email: paul@paulbarker.me.uk
> http://www.paulbarker.me.uk

Can you give some estimates on how long the implementation of this
feature will take?

-- 
Best regards,
Yevhen

Re: Failed to build opkg with curl support

[Paul Barker]

On 14 January 2014 13:36, Yevhen Kyriukha <kirgene@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> 2014/1/10 Paul Barker <paul@paulbarker.me.uk>:
>> On 9 January 2014 12:04, Yevhen Kyriukha <kirgene@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I define "curl" in PACKAGECONFIG for opkg.
>>> After that I'm getting circular dependency errors during building opkg.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Yevhen
>>
>> Sorry, this is a known problem.
>>
>> The update-alternatives script needs to be moved out of opkg, either
>> to opkg-utils or to its own recipe as it is the use of
>> update-alternatives that is causing the circular dependencies. This is
>> what I am planning to work on next as soon as I get some time.
>>
>> This is required for my ongoing development work on opkg so it should
>> get sorted out soon. (Future versions of opkg will depend on
>> libarchive which also indirectly depends on update-alternatives).
>>
>> Related to this is the fact that no other providers of
>> update-alternatives seem to work, again due to circular dependencies.
>>
>> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/45321
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Paul Barker
>>
>> Email: paul@paulbarker.me.uk
>> http://www.paulbarker.me.uk
>
> Can you give some estimates on how long the implementation of this
> feature will take?
>

I threw a few patches together over the last week, they just need
testing before I'm happy to submit them for merging into mainline
openembedded. They move the update-alternatives utility to the
opkg-utils recipe, hopefully allowing the opkg recipe to have
dependencies added without resulting in a circular dependency loop.

I'm not at my development machine at the minute, but I'll forward them
to you later so you can test them as well. Email me again to remind me
if you haven't got them within a day or so.

Cheers,

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul@paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk