I need to install some binary locales during rootfs generation; the problem happens with each language, let's assume German here. My image recipe specifies IMAGE_LINGUAS = "de-de", this correctly installs locale-base-de-de. I do not know if locale-base-de-de is supposed to automatically pull in eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de, the actual problem is that there is no way to tell OE to install eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de in the image. Normally I would add it to RDEPENDS of one of my task, but in this case it has no effect. The reason is, that locale-base-de-de tells opkg that it provides eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de, here's a sniplet from Packages (opkg Packages feed file generated by bitbake package-index): Package: locale-base-de-de Version: 2.12-r19 Depends: eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de Provides: virtual-locale-de-de, virtual-locale-de, eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de Btw now I also see that it lists eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de in Depends, so something is wrong here. As a side note: the reason why I want to have eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de is, that I am using gettext to translate some shell stuff depending on locale settings. For this purpose gettext-runtime ships a /usr/bin/gettext.sh script that depends on the correct locale setting, for example LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF8" for selecting the desired language. However, translation fails if the binary localedata package is not installed on the system. To reproduce, simply build eglibc and analyse the generated locale-base-* packages. Exactly the same problem is already described on the mailing list: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-August/008510.html
I commit went in the oecore to fix this. commit 3754d75e49f285e530a3989888410b0877846eb6 Author: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com> Date: Mon Jan 9 11:33:09 2012 -0800 locale: fix package's "provides" tag Fixes this bug: [YOCTO #1874] Fixes an issue where a locale package depends on one package while it also provides the same, as seen bellow. Package: locale-base-de-de Version: 2.12-r19 Depends: eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de Provides: virtual-locale-de-de, virtual-locale-de, eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de Actually the eglibc-binary-localedata-de-de is ia separate package, and it should not be part of provides of the locale-base-de-de. (From OE-Core rev: 49c5ff7197b44c7d29d31506c2425b86bc2c1ff6) Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Closing the issue, if still see the same issue reopen this bug.