[linux-yocto] kernel-dev rpm does not have much contents

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:36 AM Michael Lim <youhour at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> I am building a power pc core-image-minimal in yocto using linux-yoct_4.19. The project was built successfully, However, the kernel-dev rpm does not have much content.
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> Its contents below:
> fips_ppcnf]$ rpmv kernel-dev-4.19.61+git0+960be42184_4ec6f25516-r0.fips_ppcnf.rpm
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 26 17:04 /boot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 375741 Oct 26 17:04 /boot/Module.symvers-4.19.61-yocto-standard
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1542246 Oct 26 17:04 /boot/System.map-4.19.61-yocto-standard
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60694 Oct 26 17:04 /boot/config-4.19.61-yocto-standard
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> There are no contents relate to the header files nor any built code.
>
> The kernel.bbclass has this line
> FILES_${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-dev = "/boot/System.map* /boot/Module.symvers* /boot/config* ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} ${nonarch_base_libdir}/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build"
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> KERNEL_SRC_PATH="/usr/src/kernel"
> KERNEL_VERSION="4.19.61-yocto-standard"
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> Seems like the contents in the bold path were not included in the rpm.
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> I'm not sure where the ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} is. So I changed it to ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}. As I know there are contents there. Unfortunately, kernel-dev rpm does not contains the file in ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}.
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> STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR="/tmp/youhour/b20191023a/fips-build/fips-ppcnf/build/tmp/work-shared/fips-ppcnf/kernel-build-artifacts"
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> I am very very new to the yocto build. Can someone help pointing out what I need to do to get all the code in ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR} the kernel-dev rpm?

You want the kernel-devsrc package, not kernel-dev in this case.

Bruce

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> By the way, I am using yocto 'WARRIOR' branch.
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> Thank you in advance.
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> Michael Y. Lim
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