From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f178.google.com (mail-ie0-f178.google.com [209.85.223.178]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E8C6B6B7 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iecat20 with SMTP id at20so47124067iec.12 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:45:56 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to :references:organization:content-type:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Qr4Q4bIE9eNF9HMmAILgOOAPcAawBS/8mluX7rMFj6Q=; b=bDvKY9y1CmEIO+xwkm/Y0haTEumS55RVxJgHsinjlE2eZcP7Wn/ONNNjaNkZVElEw8 5aqsEbg3uJXrFd2YcoAZAOCb8zo3VeekZMzNwhL5m7CSEPW6wzLDQK2cJfvsTBHwASPa W50uH7+rU7rRoLFDz230PJqG9OmMg8n+JUOJ6ouimyzG/WJzEU4iCc/ofB8vrYwr6nVq Yxeu/8A+8X8ECezfRK4mcfK1TcY5bRH9Ily+COZwtSykq3+0ml4nobXtF/I0If8q8JNO WDPFDFFGKxzPMtEx9mc7bS6dMlCsMCw5iH4FewffBzDOJuNNAL7of+NxoNeGVFU7OJOx oFYA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnWTgXW8GzLFNmGfle0eeuqsCvRzyZ86uamAJjnxIxsQFnxp2tbpxCsYxriau7OD1socFIU X-Received: by 10.42.172.136 with SMTP id n8mr39081344icz.85.1424249156259; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pohly-mobl1 (p57A57C83.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [87.165.124.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id t41sm12808862ioi.0.2015.02.18.00.45.54 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:45:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1424249151.549.17.camel@intel.com> From: Patrick Ohly To: Dan McGregor Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:45:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1424180525-4138-1-git-send-email-patrick.ohly@intel.com> <54E3723B.9050606@windriver.com> <54E375B2.9080002@windriver.com> Organization: Intel GmbH, Dornacher Strasse 1, D-85622 Feldkirchen/Munich X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Christopher Larson , Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: [PATCH] package_rpm.bbclass: support packaging of symlinks to directories X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:45:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 21:40 -0600, Dan McGregor wrote: > > On 17 Feb 2015 11:09, "Mark Hatle" wrote: > > > > On 2/17/15 10:57 AM, Christopher Larson wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Mark Hatle > > > > 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. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter.