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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: can pkg_{pre, post}rm functions be run at all for image creation?
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 15:57:00 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1408021555440.5174@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKF1srw7Rho8mFxL9nfB-wm3OQsx8QPV_DMqEQ4Miv8uxiFdg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Khem Raj wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > say, pkg_prerm() functions would never be written with respect to the
> > variable ${D}, which would be relevant only during image creation. but
> > i can see things like this in sysklogd.inc:
> >
> > pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
> >         if test "x$D" = "x"; then
>
> note that its not ${D} (bitbake context) but $D which is evaluated
> in the context when the script is run.

  i still don't understand ... what are the possible values of $D
here, and what would they represent?

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-02 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-02 16:34 can pkg_{pre, post}rm functions be run at all for image creation? Robert P. J. Day
2014-08-02 19:40 ` Khem Raj
2014-08-02 19:57   ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2014-08-02 20:09     ` Khem Raj
2014-08-03  6:56       ` Robert P. J. Day
2014-08-04 12:37         ` Paul Eggleton
2014-08-04 13:42           ` Robert P. J. Day
2014-08-04 13:51             ` Paul Eggleton
2014-08-04 13:53             ` Richard Purdie
2014-08-04 13:56               ` Robert P. J. Day

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