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

4 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 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" %
diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/deb/__init__.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/deb/__init__.py
index 86ddb130ad..b96ea0bad4 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/deb/__init__.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/deb/__init__.py
@@ -289,14 +289,18 @@ class DpkgPM(OpkgDpkgPM):
 
         self.deploy_dir_unlock()
 
-    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only=False):
+    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only=False, hard_depends_only=False):
         if attempt_only and len(pkgs) == 0:
             return
 
         os.environ['APT_CONFIG'] = self.apt_conf_file
 
-        cmd = "%s %s install --allow-downgrades --allow-remove-essential --allow-change-held-packages --allow-unauthenticated --no-remove %s" % \
-              (self.apt_get_cmd, self.apt_args, ' '.join(pkgs))
+        extra_args = ""
+        if hard_depends_only:
+            extra_args = "--no-install-recommends"
+
+        cmd = "%s %s install --allow-downgrades --allow-remove-essential --allow-change-held-packages --allow-unauthenticated --no-remove %s %s" % \
+              (self.apt_get_cmd, self.apt_args, extra_args, ' '.join(pkgs))
 
         try:
             bb.note("Installing the following packages: %s" % ' '.join(pkgs))
diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py
index 4cd3963111..6fd2f021b6 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class OpkgPM(OpkgDpkgPM):
 
         self.deploy_dir_unlock()
 
-    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only=False):
+    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only=False, hard_depends_only=False):
         if not pkgs:
             return
 
@@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ class OpkgPM(OpkgDpkgPM):
             cmd += " --add-exclude %s" % exclude
         for bad_recommendation in (self.d.getVar("BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS") or "").split():
             cmd += " --add-ignore-recommends %s" % bad_recommendation
+        if hard_depends_only:
+            cmd += " --no-install-recommends"
         cmd += " install "
         cmd += " ".join(pkgs)
 
diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/rpm/__init__.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/rpm/__init__.py
index b392581069..d97dab3293 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/rpm/__init__.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/rpm/__init__.py
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ class RpmPM(PackageManager):
         os.environ['NATIVE_ROOT'] = self.d.getVar('STAGING_DIR_NATIVE')
 
 
-    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only = False):
+    def install(self, pkgs, attempt_only=False, hard_depends_only=False):
         if len(pkgs) == 0:
             return
         self._prepare_pkg_transaction()
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ class RpmPM(PackageManager):
 
         output = self._invoke_dnf((["--skip-broken"] if attempt_only else []) +
                          (["-x", ",".join(exclude_pkgs)] if len(exclude_pkgs) > 0 else []) +
-                         (["--setopt=install_weak_deps=False"] if self.d.getVar('NO_RECOMMENDATIONS') == "1" else []) +
+                         (["--setopt=install_weak_deps=False"] if (hard_depends_only or self.d.getVar('NO_RECOMMENDATIONS') == "1") else []) +
                          (["--nogpgcheck"] if self.d.getVar('RPM_SIGN_PACKAGES') != '1' else ["--setopt=gpgcheck=True"]) +
                          ["install"] +
                          pkgs)