Re: [PATCH] package_rpm.bbclass: support packaging of symlinks to directories

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 21:40 -0600, Dan McGregor wrote:
> 
> On 17 Feb 2015 11:09, "Mark Hatle" <mark.hatle@windriver.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/17/15 10:57 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Mark Hatle
> <mark.hatle@windriver.com
> > > <mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com>> wrote:
> > > This patch doesn't make it walk into the directory symlinks, it moves them into
> > > the files list rather than the dirs list so they'll be captured themselves, as
> > > far as I can tell from reading it.
> >
> > Ok.. I missed that bit.. I'm still curious what this fixes.
> >
> 
> I haven't tried myself, but I expect it helps with the /usr merge.

Correct. I was working on a distro with a modified basefiles recipe
which only had /usr/[lib|bin|sbin] and symlinks to those in /. Without
this patch it was not possible to get these symlinks packaged in the
basefiles rpm.

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