Re: [yocto] mc fails to start with readonly rootfs

Re: [yocto] mc fails to start with readonly rootfs

[Marek Belisko]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:04 PM Marek Belisko via
Lists.Yoctoproject.Org
<marek.belisko=gmail.com@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when enable readonly rootfs mc fails to start because cannot write to
> directory: /home/root/.config/mc
>
> I've created volatile-bindd to this directory (to be able to write
> something) and extend mc using below bbappend:
>
> do_install_append () {
>         install -d ${D}/home/root/.config/mc
> }
>
> FILES_${PN} += "/home/root/.config/mc/*"
>
> But now I got QA issue:
>
> ERROR: mc-4.8.22-r0 do_package: QA Issue: mc: Files/directories were
> installed but not shipped in any package:
>   /home
>   /home/root
>   /home/root/.config
>   /home/root/.config/mc
> Please set FILES such that these items are packaged. Alternatively if
> they are unneeded, avoid installing them or delete them within
> do_install.

QA issue is resolved by adding: FILES_${PN} += "/home/root/.config/mc/"
Is this patch welcomed to upstream to overcome same problem?
>
> Checked FILES_mc and path is there. Am I missing anything obvious? Thanks.
>
> BR,
>
> marek
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BR,

marek