[poky] [PATCH] Update poky-feed-config-opkg to generate a useful package setup

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 10:46 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> The current poky-feed-config-opkg package only generates a skeleton for the
> opkg setups.  In particular, the base configuration file /etc/opkg/base-files.conf
> is not filled in at all.
> 
> The attached patch fills this file in, using variables set by the
> user (local.conf, site.conf, etc).  If left unset, the behaviour will
> be the same as current.
> 
> One thing I found is that opkg is very noisy if there are databases
> mentioned in base-files.conf that don't exist.  For example, on ARM
> platforms, there are a large number of possibilities (arm, armv5, armv6, ...)
> that are never populated in .../tmp/deploy/ipk.  The changes to this
> recipe will prune the file to only include those ipk databases which
> have actual files present.

Your code is one big race unfortunately since the actual file generated
will depend on whether any packaging task has run before it or not (and
what package type that was). I'm not sure how to fix that but it can't
go in as it stands due to that...

Cheers,

Richard