From: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
To: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>
Cc: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] How to express a dependency that can be satisfied by alternative packages
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 12:53:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200102115336.qk5trtwu3zaz5wb4@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABDcavY1sq7Jf93TxmV13PsWdML5TTBwz=Qh+bYcWXhw4=4mjw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:23:13PM +0100, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Let's say I have a package that requires a specific cmd line utility
> (e.g. openvt).
> This can be provided by two different packages (e.g. busybox or kbd)
> How to express that dependency in the .in file of my package ?
PTXdist (or rather kconfig) does not have a notion of "provides" or
metapackages. I think is currently no way other than making a choice
option that selects the one or the other, or letting your config option
deoend on BUSYBOX_OPENVT || KBD_OPENVT. In the latter case it is
probably good to add a comment above it that depends on the opposite
value notifying the user that neither one of them is selected (see the
comment above IPTABLES_INSTALL_IPTABLES_APPLY in iptables.in for
example).
- Roland
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-16 18:23 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
2020-01-02 11:53 ` Roland Hieber [this message]
2020-01-02 15:15 ` Michael Olbrich
2020-01-07 11:11 ` Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
2020-01-07 11:29 ` Michael Olbrich
2020-01-07 15:21 ` Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
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