[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think dropping support for / and ${prefix} makes sense as long
>> as it doesn't excessively hurt us
>
> we already have, done special things to support it look how many
> libraries appear in /lib now a days despite their original build
> system wanting it in /usr and I still get atleast 50 warnings on it
> wanting more in /lib and I am sure someone will send patches
> for it because they hate the warning and then we will have this
> growing pile of patches
> to maintain. So IMO it has already started to hurt us.

just to quantify it. I have 11 warnings reported about it.

WARNING: QA Issue: .... installed in the base_prefix, requires a
shared library under exec_prefix (/usr)

this is very custom image but very much similar to core-image-minimal
now if I fix this 11 warnings. For the sake of it I fixed these 11 warnings
by hacking patches for packages or recipes to move these files into
base_prefix and it now gives me 16 more warnings about same but
different files it wants to bring along into base_prefix

its quite slimy :/