Re: [OE-core] How to create a directory in multiple packages?

Mark Hatle
2020-12-15T01:01:40Z

On 12/14/20 11:43 AM, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> Say we have a recipe that creates an empty /etc/foo directory. Now we
> want to add a new file in that directory /etc/foo/bar and package it as
> ${PN}-bar. This means the creation of the /etc/foo directory is moved
> from the ${PN} package to the ${PN}-bar package. Is there any way to
> make ${PN} continue to create an empty /etc/foo, or is the only
> alternative to introduce an /etc/foo/.dummy and package it in ${PN}?

try adjust the order of the PACKAGES variant. Something like:

PACKAGES = "${PN}-bar ... ${PN}"

FILES_${PN}-bar = "/etc/foo/bar"
FILES_${PN} = "/etc/foo"

That SHOULD package the file 'bar' in -bar, and the directory in ${PN}.

(Some of the people commenting this isn't less then optimal, actually it's not
that unusual.. Typical case I see is creating a directory in /var or /usr/share
for datafiles and the main package owns the directory, with sub-packages [or
other packages] contributing data into that directory.)

--Mark

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