From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dan.rpsys.net (5751f4a1.skybroadband.com [87.81.244.161]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4528D60853 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 11:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id u6TBwZR5021979; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:58:35 +0100 Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kq60QAN5_w8N; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:58:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from hex ([192.168.3.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id u6TBwY3W021976 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:58:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1469793514.9142.61.camel@linuxfoundation.org> From: Richard Purdie To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:58:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1469792913.9142.56.camel@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: OE Core mailing list Subject: Re: want to verify proper use of run-postinsts, if i may X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 11:58:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 07:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 07:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > ... snip ... > > > > > > > am i missing anything? i'm assuming i'd use a .bbappend recipe > > > > to > > > > add the script names to SRC_URI, then define > > > > "do_install_append()" > > > > to manually copy them over, or is there a proper way to do that > > > > i'm > > > > not seeing? > > > > > > never mind, just found an example that confirmed just what i > > > suspected: > > > > > > https://github.com/meta-debian/meta-debian/blob/daisy/recipes-deb > > > ian/ > > > run-postinsts/run-postinsts_1.0.bbappend > > > > Personally, I wouldn't take meta-debian as a good example of > > anything, that layer is doing some things which I'd find > > questionable. Obviously they are free to do so though. > > > > Most of the time the package manager sets up things to run under > > run > > -postinsts as needed. Yes, you can do this automatically, but why > > not just write a postinstall for your package and defer it to first > > boot if that is what you need? > > it's not just package post stuff here, i'm looking at run-postinsts > to do a *lot* of subsequent setup of the target system -- effectively > downloading and installing the entire proprietary application. > > yes, i realize i could just make that app part of the initial > image, > but there are reasons for this. so i'm assuming just manually > installing and running some scripts via run-postinsts is the way to > go. Note that if there aren't files there to run, I think run-postinsts disables itself from subsequent boots so it really is designed for "one -shot" use. It may not run at all if there is nothing to run. Cheers, Richard