Re: [PATCH] package.bbclass: Let pn be eglibc for eglibc-locale

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 7/26/12 3:38 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:16 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bletch!  There must surely be some way to solve this problem without
>>> hacking recipe names into package.bbclass.
>>
>> Yes making eglibc-locale base package to be non empty. So if we put in
>> something there that it never turns out to be empty is one way
>
> Well, having things depending on eglibc-locale-locale is wrong in many
> ways :/. eglibc is just the only package we split the locale generation
> into a separate recipe for.
>
> A more generic check in there which would work for multiple libcs would
> be:
>
> if pn.endswith("-locale"):
>      pn = pn[:-7]

This sounds like a good alternative.  It still enables breakups of the locales, 
if appropriate, with the only rule being that the core part of the name be 
consistent with whatever it's targeting.

i.e. eglibc and eglibc-locale

> the other alternative which comes to mind would be so set a variable
> with the name we want used there, defaulting it to PN.

I had suggested changing the PN of the eglibc-locale to "eglibc", but I believe 
Khem ran into a number of problems doing this.

--Mark

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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