[poky] Opkg Dependency Resolving Issue

[Jay Foster]

I am new to yocto and am working with the rocko release.  It has opkg 
version 0.3.5 .  I have encountered a package dependency issue that 
seems like a bug to me, but I would like to know what others with more 
opkg experience might know.

I have a package, a, which provides package b.
I have another package, c, which depends on b.

I install package a.
When I try to install package c, it complains that it cannot find 
package b upon which it depends.  I would expect opkg to see that 
package a (already installed) provides b and satisfies package c's 
dependency.  That does not happen.

If I use the command 'opkg whatprovides b' it replies with package a.  
So opkg does know that package a provides package b, but it seems to not 
use this information when resolving package installation dependencies.  
This seems like a bug to me.

Any help is welcome.