Bug 14530 - Dev manual 3.3.17 erroneously claims that virtual providers do not apply to RPROVIDES
Summary: Dev manual 3.3.17 erroneously claims that virtual providers do not apply to R...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
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Product: Development Manual
Classification: Documentation
Component: development (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Undecided normal
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Assignee: Michael Opdenacker
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Reported: 2021-08-30 12:29 UTC by Robert P. J. Day
Modified: 2021-08-31 17:41 UTC (History)
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Description Robert P. J. Day 2021-08-30 12:29:57 UTC 
Section 3.3.17 in dev manual -- https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev-manual/common-tasks.html#using-virtual-providers -- contains the note:

"Virtual providers only apply to build time dependencies specified with PROVIDES and DEPENDS. They do not apply to runtime dependencies specified with RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS."

This appears to be incorrect as at least two recipes appear to use that:

> meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-bootconf_1.00.bb:RPROVIDES:${PN} +=
> "virtual/systemd-bootconf"
> 
> meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub-bootconf_1.00.bb:RPROVIDES:${PN} +=
> "virtual/grub-bootconf"
Comment 1 Michael Opdenacker 2021-08-30 15:40:42 UTC 
A fix is proposed here:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/1769
Comment 2 Michael Opdenacker 2021-08-31 17:41:12 UTC 
Oops, I got Richard's explanations wrong.
What's wrong are the lines in OE core recipes, not the documentation.

Closing this bug, and will open a new one.