Re: Packaging questions

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2013-07-26 09:52, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 26 July 2013 16:43, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> One final packaging question.  In my build I have these files:
>>    /etc/amanda/
>>    /etc/amanda/MyConfig/
>>    /etc/amanda/MyConfig/tapelist
>>    /etc/amanda/MyConfig/disklist
>>    /etc/amanda/MyConfig/amanda.conf
>>
>> I want the /etc/amanda/MyConfig to be packaged separately in "amanda-demo"
>> package.
>>    PACKAGES += " ${PN}-demo "
>>    FILES_${PN}-demo += " \
>>                   /etc/amanda/MyConfig/ \
>>                   /amanda \
>>    "
>>    FILES_${PN} += "${libdir} \
>>              ${libexecdir}/amanda/* \
>>              /var/amanda \
>>              /etc/amanda \
>>    "
>>
>> Sadly, the /etc/amanda/MyConfig tree is ending up in the main package.  How
>> can I stratify it the way I want?
>
> Various things interacting explain this.  Package takes files in the
> order that they appear in PACKAGES, so by using += you're *appending*
> amanda-demo to PACKAGES, so it's at the end.  FILES_$PN defaults to a
> long list of "useful" paths, including ${sysconfdir}.
>
> So, two options, both of which will work:
>
> 1) prepend amanda-demo to PACKAGES, so it gets to take files first. =+
> is the prepend operator.
> 2) Change FILES_$PN to explictly set the entire value instead of
> appending the default, then you can leave out $sysconfdir.

Option #1 is perfect and does just what I want, thanks!

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