On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 21:26 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:

On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 11:57 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:

Does that make it clearer why we need this?

I certainly understand it more.. I'm just struggling with how to
explain when
someone would need this or not, to someone who hasn't hit one of the
extraction
problems. I think that is by far my biggest remaining concern, how
to make
sure people can understand they need to do this and when...

The rules in some ways are simple, it comes down to:

"""
If your postinstall can execute at rootfs creation time rather than on
target but depends on a native tool in order to execute, you need to
list that tool in PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPENDS.
"""

Looking at this description, it is not at all clear to me why the
variable is named PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPENDS. From the description, the
things listed in it are dependencies of do_rootfs, not of
do_package_write_*, even if it happens to be implemented that way.

I like PS_NATIVE_DEPENDS better. Just my 2 cents.

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