[OE-core] [PATCH V2 4/4] rpm-postinsts.bb: enable postinst logging

[Saul Wold]

On 05/19/2013 07:50 PM, Qi.Chen at windriver.com wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>
> Enable postinst logging by checking the configuration in /etc/
> default/postinst.
>
> In this way, the postinst logging is enabled if 'debug-tweaks' is
> in IMAGE_FEATURES, and at the same time, we avoid unnecessary rebuild
> if IMAGE_FEATURES is changed.
>
> [YOCTO #4262]
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm-postinsts.bb |   13 +++++++------
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm-postinsts.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm-postinsts.bb
> index 3d2d05d..01d7450 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm-postinsts.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm-postinsts.bb
> @@ -11,10 +11,6 @@ inherit allarch
>   #
>   POSTINSTALL_INITPOSITION ?= "98"
>
> -POSTLOG ?= "/var/log/postinstall.log"
> -REDIRECT_CMD = "${@base_contains('IMAGE_FEATURES', 'debug-tweaks', '>>${POSTLOG} 2>&1', '', d)}"
> -REDIRECT_CMD[vardepsexclude] += "IMAGE_FEATURES POSTLOG"
> -
>   do_fetch() {
>   	:
>   }
> @@ -36,11 +32,16 @@ if [ "x$D" != "x" ] && [ -f $D/var/lib/rpm/Packages ]; then
>   	install -d $D/${sysconfdir}/rcS.d
>   	cat > $D${sysconfdir}/rcS.d/S${POSTINSTALL_INITPOSITION}run-postinsts << "EOF"
>   #!/bin/sh
> -
> +[ -e /etc/default/postinst ] && . /etc/default/postinst
>   [ -d /etc/rpm-postinsts ] && for i in `ls /etc/rpm-postinsts/`; do
>   	i=/etc/rpm-postinsts/$i
>   	echo "Running postinst $i..."
> -	if [ -f $i ] && $i ${REDIRECT_CMD}; then
> +	if [ -x $i ]; then
> +		if [ "$POSTINST_LOGGING" = "ENABLED" ]; then
> +			$i >/var/log/postinstall.log 2&>1

This will over write the results of a previous postinstall because this 
is running in a for look, you should use >> instead of >.

I also suggested that the log file be a variable and you should use the 
${localestatedir} as the base for /var.  So you would add something like 
POSTINST_LOGFILE.

Thanks
	Sau!



> +		else
> +			$i
> +		fi
>   		rm $i
>   	else
>   		echo "ERROR: postinst $i failed."
>