I think the high level summary is: 1. You can look and see if the module is in open-embedded by checking at http://layers.openembedded.org/ <http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/> . 2. You're supposed to make a separate recipe for every little module.
- mulhern On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Stewart, David C < david.c.stew...@intel.com> wrote: > Did you get an answer? I'm not seeing it. > > From: mulhern <mulh...@gmail.com> > Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:30 AM > To: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" <yocto@yoctoproject.org> > Subject: [yocto] Discovering available Perl modules OR writing recipes > for your own > > Hi all, > > I'm working on a recipe for pullledpork, which is a Perl app which grabs > and combines Snort rules from various sites. > > My questions all revolve around pulledpork's various module dependencies. > > pulledpork tries to use the module Crypt::SSLeay and in my current > configuration it can't find it. It is very easy to write a little recipes > that provides this module and forge ahead. > > But I'm not sure that that is the correct thing to do...especially as it > looks like I'll have to do the same thing for another ten or so tiny > modules if I take that approach. > > First, is there some way that I can find out whether that or any > particular Perl module is provided by some recipe somewhere? My plan would > be to RDEPEND on every available Perl module, forcing them all to be > installed in the right place, run the pulledpork script, do the right think > to provide any modules still missing until the script can actually > complete, and then remove from RDEPENDS all previously included modules > that don't show up a values in %INC. So far, so good, but I don't know how > to even locate all the Perl modules that are already available. > > Second, if the modules really are not available is there a better way to > package them up than writing individual recipes for each and every missing > module? > > Third, are there naming conventions that should be followed? For example > there is a recipe for liburi-perl that provides the very simply named Perl > module URI. > > Thanks! > > - mulhern > > >
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