[OE-core] how to exclude files when packaging?

[Henning Heinold]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:14:06AM +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Ni Qingliang
> <niqingliang at insigma.com.cn> wrote:
> > Hello, All:
> >        I'm working on opensaf, wrote a bb file for it,
> > and found that the FILES_${PN} has included /usr/lib/${PN}/*.
> > but there are some .a and .so(symlink) in /usr/lib/${PN}, which will
> > result QA issue.
> >        how to exclude some files (e.g. *.a, *.so) in FILES_${PN}?
> >
> >        there are some elf in /usr/lib/${PN} whose prefix is not 'lib', so if
> > no 'exclude' feature, I must redefine FILES_${PN} like this:
> >        FILES_${PN} = "/usr/lib/${PN}/*.so.* \
> >                       /usr/lib/${PN}/saf* \
> >                       /usr/lib/${PN}/open* \
> >                       /usr/lib/${PN}/immload \
> >                       /usr/lib/${PN}/nid_tipc \
> >                       /usr/lib/${PN}/smf* \
> >                       /usr/lib/${PN}/clc-cli/*"
> 
> Explicitly list what you want in FILES_${PN}
> 
> FILES_${PN} = /usr/lib/${PN}/saf
> 
> Make another PACKAGE for other files
> 
> PACKAGES =+ ${PN}-misc
> FILES_${PN}-misc = /usr/lib/${PN}/saf
> 
> Maybe someone else can chime in if there is a way to mask certain files...

No,

QA would always complain. For all files you do not want to package make a do_install_append()
and remove them inside this function.

Another solution would be to tweak the buildsystem of the software, not to install the unwanted
files.

Bye Henning