[poky] Include already exisiting rpm or .spec

[Mark Hatle]

On 4/25/12 10:56 AM, Patrick wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We have some software that we develop from a while that we release as
> rpm. To build these rpm we have some complexe .spec files.
>
> Now we use Yocto/Poky to build many new elements and I would like to
> include in my rootfs generated with Yocto/Poky some of our "old"
> software. We don't want to manage the bitbake recipes and the .spec for
> each of our "old" software.
>
> I then would like to know if I could made a simple bitbake recipes that
> "call/include/use" the .specs files ?
> Another solution would be to include directly the rpm to the final
> image. Do you think that it's possible ?

This is something that we have discussed, but nobody has implement it yet.

It is best for long term maintenance to transfer the spec file items into recipe 
format... but if you don't want to do that you can copy your built binary RPM 
packages into the deploy/RPMS/<arch> directory and then add the package names to 
install into IMAGE_INSTALL (from memory).

--Mark

> Thanks in advance for idea or hint
>
> Patrick
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