Re: Ignore a dependency

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:42:25 +0200
schrieb "Roberto A. Foglietta" <roberto.foglietta@gmail.com>:

> Il Mer 14 Set 2022, 10:34 Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
> ha scritto:
> 
> >
> > do_binary_patch[cleandirs] += "${WORKDIR}/blabla-package"
> > do_binary_patch() {
> >         sudo dpkg-deb -R ${WORKDIR}/blabla-package.deb
> > ${WORKDIR}/blabla-package
> >         # do something funny with the control file, i.e. sed -i -e
> > ... Depends
> >         sudo dpkg-deb -b ${WORKDIR}/blabla-package
> > }
> > addtask binary_patch after do_unpack before do_deploy_deb
> >  
> 
> Dear Henning,
> 
> you got the point. I did not twsted yet but it looks promising. In the
> meantime I made may way as explained here below:
> 
> > In brief, it does such a thing:  
> > >
> > > set the resolv.conf
> > > apt update
> > > apt download
> > > dpkg -x
> > > install
> > > rm all
> > >  
> >  
> 
> I am not particularly impressed by this way but for a sigle 3rd party
> package it can be acceptable. Your solution seems much more elegant.
> 
> However, I started to write a class for doing this job and it seems an
> over-engineered solution but it is very good to learn some internal
> about Isar and bitbake. Both are valuable tools, so it is not wasted
> time. I bet thsr your proposed solution will win.

They are powerful and allow all sorts of stuff. But nothing beats
getting in touch with the vendor of the broken package and get your
problem fixed there, so you can eventually drop your hooks.

Henning

> Cheers, R-
> 
> >