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

[Mark Hatle]

On 11/17/11 3:12 AM, Ni Qingliang wrote:
> I still think that the 'exclude" feature would be better.:)

IMHO an exclude function would simply be an automated rm -f <list> at the end of 
the install process.

It should be fairly easy to implement this if someone thinks it's a better idea 
then making individual recipes run a rm -f of their own.

--Mark

> 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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