[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Building Maemo from scratch

[From: Russell Geldmacher]

Hi Florian,

I was under the impression that when OE sees a package that has
(R)DEPENDS on another package, it will go find the one marked
(R)PROVIDES for that functionality and build it. Is that wrong?

rusty

On 1/20/06, Florian Boor <florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Russell Geldmacher wrote:
> > I'm getting fairly far in the OE build process (for Maemo-1.0 -- we'll
> > talk about adding 1.1 later). It eventually will fail with the
> > following message:
> >
> > ERROR: Nothing provides hotplug
> > ERROR: dependency hotplug (for nokia770-init) not satisfied
> > NOTE: no buildable providers for nokia770-init
> > ERROR: dependency nokia770-init (for task-bootstrap) not satisfied
> > NOTE: no buildable providers for task-bootstrap
> > ERROR: dependency task-bootstrap (for maemo-image) not satisfied
> > NOTE: no buildable providers for maemo-image
> >
> > It seems like this hotplug issue shouldn't be happening, since at
> > least three packages are providing hotplug. I get this from my
> > packages directory:
>
> Thats not really true, they don't provide this at build time. This is RPROVIDES
> vs. PROVIDES. Someone must have removed the hotplug packages from OE... it might
> be possible that you can simply use hotplug-ng instead of this but i didn't try
> this before. But the missing hotplug stuff might be worth a question to OE
> mailingist. If this didn't happen by accident i don't call this a clever idea...
>
> > Is there any chance you can send me your local.conf?
>
> I could do this, but i don't think it will help - its rather old.
>
> Greetings
>
> Florian
>
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