Bug 8745

Summary:	Add support for version constraint to DEPENDS
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Aníbal Limón <anibal.limon>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Unassigned <unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	matt.hoosier, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, pokylinux, randy.macleod, ross.burton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	6.99
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Aníbal Limón 2015-12-01 17:36:17 UTC

Will be good that bitbake recipe support version constraint in DEPENDS/RDEPENDS this helps to,

- Have multiple versions of recipes (binaries, libraries) in clean manner.
- Better handling of dependencies between recipes.

I purpose the next operators <=, <, ===, >, >= and will be next to recipe name,
DEPENDS="recipe==1.0.0".

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2015-12-03 16:09:02 UTC

We did add support to bitbake to at least accept version information in these fields. We can therefore add it and it will be parsed safely however Bitbake doesn't currently process that information though.

Comment 2 Ross Burton 2017-03-24 13:53:50 UTC

There already is version support in RDEPENDS, so this is just about DEPENDS.

I propose that the first iterate is just a sanity check: if foo-1 and foo-2 are in a layer, bar DEPENDS on foo (>2) but foo-1 is selected then bitbake should error out.

Comment 3 Matt Hoosier 2017-04-04 21:56:13 UTC

I've been using Poky for quite a while now, but nearly all my work has been at the class and recipe level.

If you can suggestions a likely place to insert an implementation of Ross's first suggestion (sanity checking), I can have a go at that.

Comment 4 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-24 14:24:20 UTC

Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99