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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:40 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> On 08/10/12 17:24, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > Since ${sysconfdir} is /etc by default and ${sysconfdir} is in the default 
> > value of FILES_${PN}, and your additional package is appended to PACKAGES, I 
> > suspect you'll find the file is being picked up by the main package first. You 
> > need to use =+ instead of += so that the some-tool-tools package is prepended 
> > to PACKAGES and thus gets the file before the main package.
> 
> Probably worth noting that using =+ with PACKAGES can have some
> undesirable side effects. For example, if the recipe in question
> generates packages dynamically, e.g., for plugins, the first package in
> the PACKAGES list will be considered the 'main' package, and the dynamic
> packages will RDEPEND on it. If you modify PACKAGES in such a recipe
> using the =+, this will result in broken dependency chain without any
> obvious signs something is not right. I think it's much better to
> explicitly specify what should go into the main package than using =+ to
> work around the unsuitable main package default.

FWIW, there is the PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN variable for this and other
scenarios where you want something just before PN in PACKAGES.

Cheers,

Richard