[poky] Augmenting base files

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-08-03 09:06, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 05:07 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2011-08-03 05:55, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I'd like to add some additional files to my build. These are
>>> simple scripts, etc, and it makes sense to include them as part
>>> of the base-files package for my platform.
>>>
>>> I tried to use the attached .bbappend file for this. Sadly, after
>>> the package fetch/unpack/patch, it has virtually nothing in it
>>> and the build fails miserably.
>>> ERROR: Function 'base-files: LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to invalid file:
>>> licenses/GPL-2' failed
>>>
>>> Looking at the work tree:
>>> $ ls tmp/work/mytarget-mydistro-linux/base-files-3.0.14-r69.1/
>>> license-destdir my_script temp
>>>
>>> Without the .bbappend, I see this in the work tree:
>>> $ ls tmp/work/mytarget-mydistro-linux/base-files-3.0.14-r69
>>> deploy-ipks host.conf issue licenses package profile share temp
>>> filesystems image issue.net motd packages-split pseudo shells usbd
>>> fstab inputrc license-destdir nsswitch.conf pkgdata rotation shlibs
>>>
>>> Note: I put my script in
>>> my-layer/packages/misc/base-files-3.0.14/mytarget/my_script
>>>
>>> If I replace this line in the .bbappend
>>> FILESEXTRAPATHS := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}"
>>> with these (the way I was told to do this when .bbappend first came
>>> available):
>>> THISDIR := "${@os.path.dirname(bb.data.getVar('FILE', d, True))}"
>>> FILESPATH =.
>>> "${@base_set_filespath(["${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}/${MACHINE}"], d)}:"
>>> then the recipe works.
>>
>> Sorry, this doesn't seem to be true - it still has problems either way.
>>
>> The only way I've been able to get this to work at all is by changing
>> SRC_URI
>> SRC_URI += "\
>> file://my_script \
>> "
>> No other form seems to work.
>>
>> A follow up problem is that my script gets installed, but doesn't seem
>> to be
>> packaged. I get a warning:
>> WARNING: For recipe base-files, the following files were installed but
>> not shipped in any package:
>> WARNING: my_script
>> I thought that this line in the main recipe should include my file:
>> FILES_${PN} = "/"
>> How do I get my script to be included?
>>
> If it's simply your script, then you could try
>
> FILES_${PN} += "my_script"

Sorry, but that doesn't help.  The resulting image is very confusing:
   $ ls tmp/work/mytarget-mydistro-linux/base-files-3.0.14-r69.1/image/
   my_script
which doesn't match up at all where my recipe said to put it.

>
>> Note: this is becoming such a pain, I'll probably just write a special
>> recipe
>> for it even though I think it makes sense to do it like I've been
>> attempting...
>>
> It does make sense, not sure what's going on, but you could file a bug

Done - http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324

>>>
>>> Obviously, I've done something major to upset things and/or I don't
>>> understand
>>> FILESEXTRAPATHS which I think should just add to the current list of
>>> places to
>>> satisfy SRC_URI.
>>>
>>> Ideas what I've done wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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