Re: File in append recipe not installed

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-03-12 14:58, p_j_r_m wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'd like to add an append recipe for base-files in order to install a custom fstab.
>
> In my system I already have this base-files recipes:
>
>      layers/openembedded-core-1.4/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
>      layers/meta-montavista-1.4/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappend
>
> So I in my layer I have:
>
> layers/meta-mylayer/recipes/base-files
> ├── base-files_3.0.14.bbappend
> └── files
>      └── fstab
>
> and I add this base-files_3.0.14.bbappend content:
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}:"
>
> SRC_URI_append = "file://fstab"
>
> do_install_append() {
>          echo "======= ${PN}-${PV} INSTALLING fstab ========"
>          install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/fstab ${D}${sysconfdir}
> }
>
> but no matter how I put FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend or how I name my bbappend when I build the recipe with bitbake base-files it never gets called and my fstab file is not installed.
> If the original recipe is base-files_3.0.14.bb, why append is base-files_3.0.14.bbappend instead of base-files_3.bbappend only? How should i name and put FILESEXTRAPATHS

Instead of putting your fstab in 'files', put it in a directory
called 'base-files-3.0.14' which is where your FILESEXTRAPATHS
is looking.

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