Bug 3086

Summary: The do_package process may generate warnings about a missing pythoneggs.py file
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Low CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, richard.purdie, sgw
Version: 1.2   
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Mark Hatle 2012-09-10 18:18:47 UTC 
The warnings only appear in the do_package log file, and not to the user directly.  The warning:

.../build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/rpm/pythoneggs.py: No such file or directory

The pythoneggs.py is used to pull out individual python dependencies from .py files.  This was intentionally disabled in the previous implementation of the RPM5 up rev, but the call was accidentally left in place.

This will not cause any problems on the user environment.

There was two possible solutions -- add support for the pythoneggs implementation, or simply disable it completely.  Either solution should be discussed with the oe-core community to determine the best approach.

(Simply adding pythoneggs.py is not enough, there are some ancillary dependencies that will need to be added to the python recipe as well.)
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2017-06-15 15:26:00 UTC 
We've dropped rpm5 support so this no longer applies.