Bug 13203 - It is not possible to RDEPEND on a -src package
Summary: It is not possible to RDEPEND on a -src package
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: configuration (show other bugs)
Version: 2.7
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ normal
Target Milestone: 2.7 M4
Assignee: Joshua Watt
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-02-25 22:57 UTC by Joshua Watt
Modified: 2019-05-01 20:40 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
OS type for building Yocto: ---
Type of Regression: ---
Verified:
Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Joshua Watt 2019-02-25 22:57:43 UTC 
It is currently not possible to RDEPEND on a -src package from a recipe because the -src package is not in ${PACKAGES}, but instead added dynamically at packaging time. It is not usually expected that a recipe would have any need to RDEPEND on a -src package, but it can be occasionally useful to include the source from a given package in an image for debugging, like so:

 IMAGE_INSTALL_append_pn-core-image-minimal = "foo-src"

However, doing so results in the following error:

 ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'foo-src' (but .../core-image-minimal_1.0.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)

I think that the solution is to add the ${PN}-src packages to the default ${PACKAGES} in bitbake.conf.
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2019-02-28 13:52:03 UTC 
That sounds reasonable to me and is presumably how we handled this for -dbg.