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

From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
To: Dan McGregor <danismostlikely@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Larson <clarson@kergoth.com>,
	Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] package_rpm.bbclass: support packaging of symlinks to directories
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:45:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1424249151.549.17.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACS+7ZTaJgfBkDOzSsnPqoi+MCwo9_46sC1hr8o9NpQMGwkzhw@mail.gmail.com>

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.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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