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

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 15:23 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:41:19AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Good to see that world-image is useful to detect other kinds of issues
> then I originally expected :).
> 
> > 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...
> 
> It's removed in gcc-configure-runtime.inc but only for libgomp
> RUNTIMETARGET, does someone remember why? Adding Matthew, because that
> removal was added in:

Its safe to remove in all cases. Its basically an index so if we care
about it, we should generate it on target at image build time.

Cheers,

Richard