Well, now that I've resolved my spelling error, the build succeeds, but my pkg_postinst_${PN} () function doesn't seem to run.

I suppose I'm resigned to making .bbappend recipes to lay down my revised version of the config files.
at least they can all be localized in a layer.  Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do things
the right way.

However, I don't know how to go about removing files and links after the build is done, and running transformative scripts on other files. For example, see the following code examples that I want to
replicate.


    #Remove unneeded services from startup
    echo Remove unneeded services from startup
    rm ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S20nfsserver
    rm ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S20syslog
    rm ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S70lighttpd

    #Remove /var/log link to /var/volatile/log, persist log.
    rm ${D}/var/log
    mkdir ${D}/var/log
    mv ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core.orig
    grep -v volatile/log ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core.orig |  tee ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core >/dev/null
    rm ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core.orig

Any ideas how to do this?

-Jim-
________________________________
From: Jim Rafert
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 3:44 PM
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: How do I create a recipe for laying down post-build config files?

I'm trying to gather all my post-build tweaks into a recipe that will be built as part of an upper-level layer, so that they are installed after the meta layer is processed.  Many of these could be accomplished as part of .bbappend files for the recipes that originally supply the config files, but I wanted to gather all my customizations in one spot, so that they're easy to find.

The recipe doesn't actually build anything, so there's no do_build task.

This is surely something that is commonly wanted.

Here's my current recipe, in spectra-postbuild_0.1.bb.

When I try to build an image, the build fails with
ERROR: QA Issue: spectra-postbuild: Files/directories were installed but not shipped
  /RELEASE-NOTES.txt

When I disable the installed-vs-shipped QA test,  it fails later when it can't find a package file.

I must be missing something critical here?
SUMMARY = "Post processing of configuration files for SpectraOS"
SECTION = "base"
LICENSE = "GPLv2"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYRIGHT;md5=349c872e0066155e1818b786938876a4"
RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initscripts"
PR = "r0"

SRC_URI = "file://inittab \
       file://fstab \
       file://rsyslog.conf \
       file://grub.cfg \
       file://mount.sh \
       file://RELEASE-NOTES.txt \
       file://Spectra-OS-Version \
       file://initializeCustomKernelModules \
       file://firewall \
       file://sysctl.conf \
       file://COPYRIGHT \
       "

CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/init.d/firewall "
CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/init.d/initializeCustomKernelModules "
FILES_${PN} =  "/RELEASE_NOTES.txt /Spectra-OS-Version "

#INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "installed-vs-shipped"

do_install () {
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/RELEASE-NOTES.txt ${D}
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/Spectra-OS-Version ${D}
}

pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -d ${D}${sbindir}

    #Install our inittab and fstab
    echo Install our inittab and fstab
    install -m 544 ${WORKDIR}/inittab ${D}/etc/inittab
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/fstab ${D}/etc/fstab
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/rsyslog.conf ${D}/etc/rsyslog.conf
    mkdir -p ${D}/boot/grub
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/grub.cfg ${D}/boot/grub/grub.cfg
        install -d ${D}/etc/udev/scripts
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/mount.sh ${D}/etc/udev/scripts/mount.sh
    chmod 755 ${D}/etc/udev/scripts/mount.sh
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/RELEASE-NOTES.txt ${D}
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/Spectra-OS-Version ${D}

    #Remove unneeded services from startup
    echo Remove unneeded services from startup
    rm ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S20nfsserver
    rm ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S20syslog
    rm ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S70lighttpd

    #Add /dev/sdd to the auto mount blacklist
    chmod 777 ${D}/etc/udev/mount.blacklist
    echo "/dev/sda*" >> ${D}/etc/udev/mount.blacklist
    echo "/dev/sdd*" >> ${D}/etc/udev/mount.blacklist
    echo "/dev/sde*" >> ${D}/etc/udev/mount.blacklist
    chmod 644 ${D}/etc/udev/mount.blacklist

    #Remove /var/log link to /var/volatile/log, persist log.
    rm ${D}/var/log
    mkdir ${D}/var/log
    mv ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core.orig
    grep -v volatile/log ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core.orig |  tee ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core >/dev/null
    rm ${D}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core.orig

    #Create directory for SCST
    mkdir -p ${D}/var/lib/scst/pr
    mkdir -p ${D}/usr/local/bin
    mkdir -p ${D}/etc/logrotate.d
    #Install drivers load script
    echo Install drivers load script
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}initializeCustomKernelModules ${D}/etc/init.d
    ln -s ${D}/etc/init.d/initializeCustomKernelModules ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S70initializeCustomKernelModules
    echo Install firewall configuration boot script
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}firewall ${D}/etc/init.d
    chmod +x ${D}/etc/init.d/firewall
    ln -s ${D}/etc/init.d/firewall ${D}/etc/rc5.d/S80firewall
    #copy config change for console log level
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}sysctl.conf ${D}/etc/sysctl.conf
}