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

[From: Russell Geldmacher]

Ah, I understand... In my grep listing, all the packages there were
marked RPROVIDES. I will try what Marc suggested and add a PROVIDES
line in there. I'll let the list know in a week or so.

rusty

On 1/23/06, Florian Boor <florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Russell Geldmacher wrote:
> > 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?
>
> more or less, yes - but RDEPENDS/RPROVIDES ends up in the package dependencies
> only. So if an alternate package doesn't set PROVIDES you will run into build
> time dependency trouble.
>
> Greetings
>
> Florian
>
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