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Subject: Re: [OE-core] style question about assigning to FILES_${PN}
From: "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>, OE Core mailing list
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:32:03 +0100
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On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 12:28 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i've seen a number of recipes bounce around between these variations
> of adding an entire directory to a package's files:
> 
>   FILES_${PN} = "dir"
>   FILES_${PN} = "dir/"
>   FILES_${PN} = "dir/*"
> 
> first, i'm assuming all of the above mean exactly the same thing, yes?

I don't think they do mean the same thing, no. I think some patch
all files in a directory and some match recursively.

Cheers,

Richard