[oi-dev] How to handle an unresolved dependency?

Gary Mills gary_mills at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 24 20:40:02 UTC 2021


On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 04:07:46PM +0100, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> 
> In many cases it's just needed to update the dependencies by running
> "gmake REQUIRED_PACKAGES".
> This will update the Makefile and you can check the new entries against
> the old ones.

That was exactly what I was trying to do.

> If Python is involved you sometime also need to
> - either add new packages (typically we don't want that)
> - or add a bypass-generate entry in the manifest

Yes, python was involved.  The magical addition to the manifest
turned out to be:

    pkg.depend.bypass-generate=.*six.*


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