[oe] openssh-dev package and populate_sdk conflicts

[Christian Eggers]

On Friday, 24 September 2021, 05:08:04 CEST, Matt Johnston wrote:
> Recently OpenBMC merged a change to install openssh-sftp-server package
> alongside dropbear sshd [1]. That caused a conflict in "populate_sdk" which
> installs all available -dev packages [2]. 'openssh-dev' pulls in an
> 'openssh' -> 'openssh-sshd' dependency which conflicts with 'dropbear' [3].
> 
> What would be the recommended way to handle that situation? For now OpenBMC
> has merged a change to disable building openssh-dev (it's empty since
> openssh doesn't have libraries) [4].


I had a similar problem. It set the following in my rootfs image recipe:

# SDK: openssh-dev cannot be installed because dropbear is already installed.
PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY += "openssh"

regards
Christian