On 14 Mar 2026, at 08:02, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2026-03-12 at 07:09 -0700, Robert Yang via lists.openembedded.org 
> wrote:
>> From: Robert Yang <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Fixed issues like::
>> Error:
>>  Problem 1: package python3-ptest-3.14.2-r0.cortexa15t2hf_neon from oe-repo 
>> requires python3-dev, but none of the providers can be installed
>>   - conflicting requests
>>   - nothing provides /usr/bin/pkg-config needed by 
>> python3-dev-3.14.2-r0.cortexa15t2hf_neon from oe-repo
>>  Problem 2: package libglib-2.0-ptest-1:2.86.3-r0.cortexa15t2hf_neon from 
>> oe-repo requires glib-2.0-dev, but none of the providers can be installed
>>   - conflicting requests
>>   - nothing provides /usr/bin/pkg-config needed by 
>> libglib-2.0-dev-1:2.86.3-r0.cortexa15t2hf_neon from oe-repo
>> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or 
>> '--setopt=optional_metadata_types=filelists' to load additional filelists 
>> metadata)
>> 
>> This is because the rpm 6.0.1 can find the pkg-config files (.pc)
>> provides/requires correctly now, the rpm 4.20.1 couldn't find that.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <[email protected]>
> 
> I'm a bit worried about the pkg-config dependencies. Are we able to
> turn this off if we need/want to?
> 
> The reason why is that installing a -dev package doesn't necessarily
> mean you actually need/want pkg-config. I appreciate there is a .pc
> file there, but just because you have a .pc file, it doesn't mean you
> are going to need/want to use it.
> 
> Do you have any comparison of the dependencies before/after the change
> and are there any other changes we need to be aware of?

My other concern is why this is needed for these three recipes and no others…

Ross
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