Re: Files missing from package

[Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.yocto@r-finger.com>]

On 08/10/12 19:22, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday 08 October 2012 18:40:45 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.
> 
> If we're using just the first item in PACKAGES for anything anywhere then that 
> is wrong and we should fix it. I would be surprised if we were still doing that 

Denzil does,

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/classes/package.bbclass?h=denzil#n110

Tomas