From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Building a metapackage
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:45:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5323321C.8030709@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACP9YJcdsdfdTGO6AmA+nPYzrR6St0-4n8QVFL3ujoGeVp6+cw@mail.gmail.com>
On 2014-03-14 10:34, David Welch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to build a meta packages whose sole purpose is to bring in dependencies?
>
> Suppose I have package-1.deb, package-2.deb and package-3.deb. I would like add a .bb file to build a metapackage for those three packages. I have tried the following but it
> didn't work:
>
> SUMMARY = "Package"
> DESCRIPTION = ""
> LICENSE = "CLOSED"
> DEPENDS = " \
> package-1 package-2 package-3 \
> "
> inherit meta
>
> My use case is a series of voices by different manufactures which need to be installed on a per-manufacturer basis. So all the voices from manufacture1 would need to be installed
> on one machine and all the voices from manufacturer2 need to go on another machine. There are about 50-100 voice packages per manufacturer.
I think packagegroups (previously known as tasks) are what you are looking for.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-14 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-14 16:34 Building a metapackage David Welch
2014-03-14 16:41 ` Burton, Ross
2014-03-14 16:45 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2014-03-14 17:15 ` David Welch
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