Re: [PATCH] bitbake.conf: Add run-parts to HOSTTOOLS

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

On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 10:19 +0100, André Draszik wrote:
> From: André Draszik <adraszik@tycoint.com>
> 
> ca-certificates runs a postinst task, update-ca-
> certificates,
> which ultimately wants to execute run-parts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: André Draszik <adraszik@tycoint.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> index 334ba2361f..8011689118 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ HOSTTOOLS += " \
>      fgrep file find flock g++ gawk gcc getconf getopt git grep
> gunzip gzip \
>      head hostname install ld ldd ln ls make makeinfo md5sum mkdir
> mknod \
>      mktemp mv nm objcopy objdump od patch perl pod2man pr printf pwd
> python python2 \
> -    python2.7 python3 ranlib readelf readlink rm rmdir rpcgen sed sh
> sha256sum \
> +    python2.7 python3 ranlib readelf readlink rm rmdir rpcgen run-
> parts sed sh sha256sum \
>      sleep sort split stat strings strip tail tar tee test touch tr
> true uname \
>      uniq wc wget which xargs \
>  "

Is run-parts guaranteed to be available on the host?

IMHO it would be better to ensure that run-parts is in recipe-sysroot-
native when installing ca-certificates. PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS can be set
in ca-certificates.bb for that. I'm just not sure about what provides
run-parts in OE.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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