Re: [OE-core][RFC PATCH 0/8] enhance kernel -devsrc output options

[bruce.ashfield@gmail.com]

From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2026-11-06 at 14:08 -0500, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2026-11-06 at 12:32 -0500, bruce.ashfield@gmail.com wrote:
> >   7-8: two general oe-core fixes, for issues I noticed in the debug
> >        rootfs while working on this support. They aren't kernel
> >        specific and don't depend on the rest of the series:
> >        postinsts of debug only packages being registered against the
> >        image, and IMAGE_INSTALL_DEBUGFS packages with broken
> >        dependencies being silently skipped.
>
> Do you have an example of something which has a postinst which this
> pulls in? I'm wondering why debug src packages have postinsts :/

They don't :) Nothing in the -devsrc part of the series has a postinst,
and neither do the complementary -dbg packages.

I hit it while prototyping the versioned package, which originally used
a postinst for the /usr/src symlink (dropped, the link is now a plain
file owned by kernel-devsrc). I then reproduced it with a test recipe
using pkg_postinst_ontarget. I could dig up that reproducer and send
it along. I should have mentioned that in the series send.

The general case is that IMAGE_INSTALL_DEBUGFS takes any package. If
one that is only in the debug rootfs has a postinst that defers to
first boot, it gets registered in the intercepts the image shares, and
do_rootfs fails trying to save a postinst for a package that isn't in
the image. In oe-core, gnutls-fips and openssl-ossl-module-fips are the
obvious candidates, though I haven't built either into a debug rootfs.

So it's not needed by this series anymore. I'm happy to split 7-8 out
and send them separately, or chuck it in the bin if it isn't necessary.
I'll run it locally, since I don't throw much away!

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard