Re: [PATCH resend] package.bbclass: call PACKAGESTRIPFUNCS before populate_packages

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>]

On 12/16/2010 06:27 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On (13/12/10 13:42), Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>> Ping
>>
>> On 12/08/2010 02:00 PM, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>>>   Introduce run_strip_funcs() to call the functions in
>>>   PACKAGESTRIPFUNCS and place it before populate_packages().
>>>
>>>   This allows users of do_split_packages() to package the .debug
>>>   directories, which get created by do_runstrip().
>>>
>>>   do_split_packages() is usually prepended to populate_packages().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>
> 
> looks ok to me. I thought .debug are automatically picked into -debug
> packages 
> In what cases will this help ?

We have a set of plugins split into one package each. With this patch, I
can create "plugin-foo-dbg" packages, which seems to be much nicer than
having one meta-dbg package containing all debug symbols, especially
with a large amount of plugins.

Regards,
Andreas