[OE-core] File conflicts between PN-doc packages

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 24 00:41:19 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 18:33 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 1/23/13 6:13 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com
> > <mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     |  * check_data_file_clashes: Package gcc-doc wants to install file
> >     rootfs/usr/share/info/dir
> 
> I missed this earlier.  Yes, the 'dir' file in an info (-doc) package should not 
> be included.  It's existence is an error.  This might be a sanity check we 
> should be adding.

autotools_do_install() in autotools.bbclass actually purges those.
Whether it should be autotools or the base class I'm not so sure but it
was a common problem for autotools recipes...

Cheers,

Richard






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