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

[Ni Qingliang]

I still think that the 'exclude" feature would be better.:)

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 16:57 +0800, Henning Heinold wrote:
> 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
> 
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