Re: [poky] Binary package naming algorithm?

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 11:11 -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> On 7/8/07, Richard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com> wrote:
>
> > This is from debian.bbclass which tries to assign "debian" like names to
> > the packages. Poky inherits the debian class as standard. Its probably
> > easiest to look at that code now you know where to look but let me know
> > if you need any more information.
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> After reading that stuff and noticing that an auxiliary package name
> mapping (staging/pkgmaps/debian) exists, does this mean that all of
> the references to items in the packages' namespace (as opposed to the
> recipes' namespace) should still be in the unmapped form?
>
> e.g.,
>
> RDEPENDS_${PN} = dependency
>
> instead of
>
> RDEPENDS_${PN} = libdependency

Yes, the core handles the conversion from the standard name to one given
by debian.bbclass when needed. In theory you could add in some other
module which implemented some other renaming scheme and things should
still work too.

Regards,

Richard

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