rpm: Disable perl dependency generation

When rpmdeps files a perl script, it attempts to determine what it provides
and what it requires.  Often the requires are incorrect, within the context
of Wind River Linux.  This results in an error that DNF is unable to install
a package due to one or more unresolved dependencies.

In RPM5 we had disabled this behavior, the alternative is to require that all
perl scripts be 'complete', in that they only require things they absolutely
need and that OE provides.  If we ever enforce that, this commit can be
reverted.  Until they fall back to prior behavior (which also matches ipkg
and deb style packages.)

(From OE-Core rev: bd8e5dc3ebabb3d88169e2f848219ca201fa5fdb)

Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a6c58699d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+perl: disable auto requires
+
+When generating automatic requirements, it's possible for perl scripts to
+declare 'optional' dependencies.  These seem to often be incorrect and will
+cause installation failures in OE.  Instead of fixing the perl scripts, it
+was decided it is better to simply disable the automatic dependency
+generation.  This matches the behavior from the previous RPM5 implementation.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE specific configuration]
+
+Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
+
+Index: git/fileattrs/perl.attr
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/fileattrs/perl.attr
++++ git/fileattrs/perl.attr
+@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
+-%__perl_requires       %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
++#__perl_requires       %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
+ %__perl_magic          ^.*[Pp]erl .*$
+ %__perl_flags          exeonly
+Index: git/fileattrs/perllib.attr
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/fileattrs/perllib.attr
++++ git/fileattrs/perllib.attr
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ %__perllib_provides    %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.prov
+-%__perllib_requires    %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
++#__perllib_requires    %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
+ %__perllib_magic       ^Perl[[:digit:]] module source.*
+ %__perllib_path                \\.pm$
+ %__perllib_flags       magic_and_path
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb
index 971aac7867..b0f57809cc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm \
            file://0011-Do-not-require-that-ELF-binaries-are-executable-to-b.patch \
            file://0012-Use-conditional-to-access-_docdir-in-macros.in.patch \
            file://0013-Add-a-new-option-alldeps-to-rpmdeps.patch \
+           file://0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch \
            "
 
 PV = "4.13.90+git${SRCPV}"