Re: Files missing from package

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-10-08 14:37, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:40 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>> On 08/10/12 17:24, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> Since ${sysconfdir} is /etc by default and ${sysconfdir} is in the default
>>> value of FILES_${PN}, and your additional package is appended to PACKAGES, I
>>> suspect you'll find the file is being picked up by the main package first. You
>>> need to use =+ instead of += so that the some-tool-tools package is prepended
>>> to PACKAGES and thus gets the file before the main package.
>>
>> Probably worth noting that using =+ with PACKAGES can have some
>> undesirable side effects. For example, if the recipe in question
>> generates packages dynamically, e.g., for plugins, the first package in
>> the PACKAGES list will be considered the 'main' package, and the dynamic
>> packages will RDEPEND on it. If you modify PACKAGES in such a recipe
>> using the =+, this will result in broken dependency chain without any
>> obvious signs something is not right. I think it's much better to
>> explicitly specify what should go into the main package than using =+ to
>> work around the unsuitable main package default.
>
> FWIW, there is the PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN variable for this and other
> scenarios where you want something just before PN in PACKAGES.

This does sound better, I always like to be explicit, especially when
the default/background has a possibility of biting me!

So, how would I use that for my case (i.e. what lines do I add/change
in my recipe to use it)?

Thanks

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