[OE-core] [PATCH 2/4] module.bbclass: sync pkg_post{inst, rm} with kernel.bbclass

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 19:20 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 23 mrt. 2012, om 18:58 heeft Andreas Oberritter het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On 23.03.2012 18:20, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> 
> >> Op 23 mrt. 2012, om 17:37 heeft Andreas Oberritter het volgende geschreven:
> >> 
> >>> * Run depmod when the rootfs gets generated.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi at opendreambox.org>
> >>> ---
> >>> meta/classes/module.bbclass |    9 +++++----
> >>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>> 
> >>> diff --git a/meta/classes/module.bbclass b/meta/classes/module.bbclass
> >>> index 53c16b7..e370b24 100644
> >>> --- a/meta/classes/module.bbclass
> >>> +++ b/meta/classes/module.bbclass
> >>> @@ -37,15 +37,16 @@ module_do_install() {
> >>> }
> >>> 
> >>> pkg_postinst_append () {
> >>> -	if [ -n "$D" ]; then
> >>> -		exit 1
> >>> -	fi
> >>> +if [ -n "$D" ]; then
> >>> +	${HOST_PREFIX}depmod -A -b $D -F ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/System.map-${KERNEL_VERSION} ${KERNEL_VERSION}
> >>> +else
> >>> 	depmod -a
> >>> 	update-modules || true
> >>> +fi
> >> 
> >> That encodes host system paths into the package, which is not a good thing for tools like narcissus and hob.
> > 
> > So should we remove the same lines from kernel.bbclass?
> 
> I think so, I don't think we want to hand out binaries with scripts that say things like:
> 
> foo-linux-depmod -F /storage/openembedded-is-a-poopyhead/something

However note that the command is only run on the build system, not on
the target and avoids running postinstalls. I'm not taking a patch to
remove this unless there is some equivalent functionality added.

Cheers,

Richard