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

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

On 2/18/15 2:45 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks, I wasn't aware that the symlinks were not working in the basefiles.

--Mark