From 38b9f5184d76bd76fbb501e3195e7fedbfc020b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shih-Yi Chen <shihyic@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 05:48:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed mlxbf-scripts should not depend on mlxbf-bootimages

 Debian:
      apt install --no-install-recommends mlxbf-scripts

    To remove:
       apt remove mlxbf-bootimages mlxbf-bootimages-devsigned mlxbf-bootimages-signed
       apt-mark manual mlxbf-scripts

RPM / Fedora / RHEL(dnf)
      dnf install --setopt=install_weak_deps=False mlxbf-bfscripts
      yum install mlxbf-bfscripts --setopt=install_weak_deps=0

    To remove:
      dnf remove mlxbf-bootimages

RM #4951903
---
 debian/control            | 3 ++-
 mlxbf-bfscripts.spec      | 4 +++-
 mlxbf-bfscripts.spec.rpkg | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 974126a..29e77fa 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Vcs-Git: https://github.com/Mellanox/bfscripts.git
 
 Package: mlxbf-scripts
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, mlxbf-bootctl, mlxbf-bootimages | mlxbf-bootimages-devsigned | mlxbf-bootimages-signed, python3, gzip
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, mlxbf-bootctl, python3, gzip
+Recommends: mlxbf-bootimages | mlxbf-bootimages-devsigned | mlxbf-bootimages-signed
 Description: Contains Mellanox BlueField scripts
  Contains Mellanox BlueField scripts that serve different ancillary purposes.
diff --git a/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec b/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec
index 5b86dde..742abd9 100644
--- a/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec
+++ b/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ BuildRequires: /usr/bin/pathfix.py
 
 Requires: mlxbf-bootctl
 # Note: mlxbf-bootimages is provided by mlxbf-aarch64-firmware on Fedora.
-Requires: mlxbf-bootimages
+# Not required on BlueField-4; kept as a weak dependency for BF1/BF2/BF3.
+Recommends: mlxbf-bootimages
 Requires: bash
 Requires: python3
 Requires: grub2-tools
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ Requires: binutils
 Requires: systemd
 Requires: gzip
 
+
 %description
 Useful scripts for managing Mellanox BlueField hardware.
 
diff --git a/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec.rpkg b/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec.rpkg
index e99c505..f90d6c5 100644
--- a/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec.rpkg
+++ b/mlxbf-bfscripts.spec.rpkg
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ BuildRequires: /usr/bin/pathfix.py
 
 Requires: mlxbf-bootctl
 # Note: mlxbf-bootimages is provided by mlxbf-aarch64-firmware on Fedora.
-Requires: mlxbf-bootimages
+# Not required on BlueField-4; kept as a weak dependency for BF1/BF2/BF3.
+Recommends: mlxbf-bootimages
 Requires: bash
 Requires: python3
 Requires: grub2-tools