package_manager: Change complementary package handling to not include soft dependencies

We've some long standing bugs where the RDEPENDS from -dev packages causes
problems, e.g. dropbear and openssh components on an image working fine together
but then the SDK failing to build as the main openssh and dropbear packages
conflict with each other (pulled in by openssh-dev and dropbear-dev).

We propose changing the behavour of complementary package installation to
ignore RRECOMMENDS. If we then change the ${PN}-dev dependency on ${PN}
to a RRECOMMENDS, we can avoid many of the issues people run into yet still
have the desired behaviour of ${PN}-dev pulling in ${PN}.

This therefore changes the package manager code so that it doesn't follow
RRECOMMENDS for completementary package globs.

[RP: Added deb support]
(From OE-Core rev: b44b0b9294675f89aa51ff84f532664f4c479677)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py
index 80bc1a6bc6..d3b45705ec 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ class PackageManager(object, metaclass=ABCMeta):
         pass
 
     @abstractmethod
-    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only=False):
+    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only=False, hard_depends_only=False):
         """
         Install a list of packages. 'pkgs' is a list object. If 'attempt_only' is
         True, installation failures are ignored.
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ class PackageManager(object, metaclass=ABCMeta):
                 bb.note("Installing complementary packages ... %s (skipped already provided packages %s)" % (
                     ' '.join(install_pkgs),
                     ' '.join(skip_pkgs)))
-                self.install(install_pkgs)
+                self.install(install_pkgs, hard_depends_only=True)
             except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
                 bb.fatal("Could not compute complementary packages list. Command "
                          "'%s' returned %d:\n%s" %