Re: [PATCH] kernel-devsrc: Don't package kernel meta-data

[Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>]

On 08/04/2016 03:41 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com
> <mailto:jacob.kroon@gmail.com>> wrote:
[...]
>     Ignore this patch, I'm suspecting that .kernel-meta/ directory
>     shouldn't exist in ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} to begin with ?
>
>
> It doesn't hurt anything by being there, but you can either intercept it
> at the
> time we stage the common kernel parts, or when you package devsrc .. either
> will work.

Since commit 3b49416fc7a7ee9bfe722f2e6089aa18df41dc58, linux-yocto.inc
does:

do_install_append(){
	if [ -n "${KMETA}" ]; then
		rm -rf ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/${KMETA}
	fi
}

But I think this accidentally got broken by a later commit
3b2b4eef0fd06099342fcc2dfa35ecf37840c090, which changed the directory
name by conditionally prepending a ".":

kmeta = d.getVar( "KMETA", True ) or "meta"
if not os.path.exists(kmeta):
     kmeta = "." + kmeta

So it seems to me that the right thing to do here would be to fix and
move the do_install_append() to kernel-yocto.bbclass. Bruce, what do
you think ?

Regards Jacob