Replacement for fakeroot do_install()?

Replacement for fakeroot do_install()?

[Koen Kooi]

Hi,

What's is the pseudo way to do fakeroot do_install()? I have a number of OE recipes that still use fakeroot and I would like to get rid of that in the OE layer for yocto.

regards,

Koen

Re: Replacement for fakeroot do_install()?

[Joshua Lock]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 14:48 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What's is the pseudo way to do fakeroot do_install()? I have a number
> of OE recipes that still use fakeroot and I would like to get rid of
> that in the OE layer for yocto.

fakeroot is a flag which tells the runqueue to load appropriate
environment variables for running the task under a fakeroot like
program, and as such it's still perfectly valid whether you're using
fakeroot or pseudo.

tl;dr

fakeroot do_install() is the pseudo way too

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Replacement for fakeroot do_install()?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 22 dec 2010, om 15:02 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 14:48 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> What's is the pseudo way to do fakeroot do_install()? I have a number
>> of OE recipes that still use fakeroot and I would like to get rid of
>> that in the OE layer for yocto.
> 
> fakeroot is a flag which tells the runqueue to load appropriate
> environment variables for running the task under a fakeroot like
> program, and as such it's still perfectly valid whether you're using
> fakeroot or pseudo.
> 
> tl;dr
> 
> fakeroot do_install() is the pseudo way too

Thanks!

It turns out to be a stray DEPENDS: http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=8bb6722b1356cc3b8494e33553240363addd2d80

regards,

Koen

Re: Replacement for fakeroot do_install()?

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 14:48 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> What's is the pseudo way to do fakeroot do_install()? I have a number
> of OE recipes that still use fakeroot and I would like to get rid of
> that in the OE layer for yocto.

All do_install's within poky now run under fakeroot (at least in the
target case).

fakeroot do_install () still works (fakeroot is a flag you can add to
any function), likewise:

do_install[fakeroot] = "1"

which means the same thing. The only downside to doing things this way
is it would apply to native recipes too and it doesn't make sense to use
fakeroot for native recipes (not least how would you then build
fakeroot/pseudo?).

So the simple answer is probably to drop the do_install references.

Cheers,

Richard