Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com> writes: > On 8/6/13 4:07 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> Hi Francesco, >> >> On Tuesday 06 August 2013 09:55:06 Francesco Del Degan wrote: >>> Playing with RDEPENDS variable i'm facing the needs to >>> specify a dependency based on specific version of a package >>> (greather than, in my specific case). >>> >>> The underlying package managers supports declaring dependencies >>> including version relationships, for example: >>> >>> Rpm: Requires: package_xxx >= 1.0.27 >>> Deb: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1) >>> Okpg: Depends: xfree (>= 6.0), glib2 >>> >>> Is this feature just missing in yocto or it's explicitly denied >>> for some reason? >> >> This should work, in fact we use it (with =) in conjunction with EXTENDPKGV >> when we want to force packages from the same recipe to upgrade in lock-step. > > The format for RDEPENDS is slightly different from all three. > > dep (= ver) > dep (< ver) > dep (> ver) > dep (<= ver) > dep (>= ver) > > (For those familiar with deb style, >> and << is not supported by the > oe-core dependency set. This is to avoid confusion as > and < are a > lot more obvious.) > > The items above are then mapped into their respective format depending > on the package manager you have selected. > > Note: The version dependency items are not evaluated by bitbake, it > only pays attention to the package name when determining build > dependencies. You would also need to specify (in your distribution or > local .conf file) a PREFERRED_VERSION_dep = "ver" to ensure the right > version is built.
Got it! Thank you for explanation. Francesco _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto