On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 09:37 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes via lists.openembedded.org wrote:

I noticed that if I have an image recipe that says

IMAGE_INSTALL += "kernel-module-foo"

it fails as expected when the kernel hasn't been built with CONFIG_FOO=m.

However, if at the same time some other package which happens to get
installed in the same image says

RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "kernel-module-foo"

the image build silently succeeds, obviously without any foo.ko
included. This doesn't seem right. [I'm well aware that the RRECOMMENDS
line alone works as expected, this is about the case where both the
above lines are in play.]

Which package backend are you using and does this happen if you
use a different one, particularly swapping ipk and rpm?

That might tell us if this is a package manager issue or a bitbake
metadata one.

Cheers,

Richard