Re: yocto package naming

[Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com>]

Hi

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:40:18 +0100
Simon Ruetzler <sruetzler@arigo-software.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to create different packages from one recipe.
> 
> This is working except for one package.
> I addes this package with
> PACKAGES += " ${PN}-demo"
> and I expected that it is named with the recipe name and demo. In this 
> case rumo-cpp-demo-1.0-rc...
> But the name is libscom1-1.0-rc..
> 
> The demo package contains the files for a dynamic library: libscom.so, 
> libscom.so.1 and libscom.so.1.5.0
> and this library name is automatically used for the package name.
> 
> For the other packages the name are as expected. All package are defined 
> in the same way except that FILES_.. definition is different.
> This packages also have dynamic libs but only the libname.so.1 files and 
> the libname.so as a link.
> 
> Why is the demo package created with the libscom name? How can I disable 
> this?

Maybe the contents of ${PN}-demo get gobbled up by another package defined
before it in PACKAGES? The order of the contents of var PACKAGES matters:
it defines precedence, the first package to match a file includes it.

Try prepending to PACKAGES, something like this:
PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-demo "

> 
> Regards Simon