[OE-core] [PATCHv2 1/2] postinst-intercept: New recipe to include postinstall intercepts in nativesdk

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:02 PM, David Nyström
<david.c.nystrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On ons 22 jan 2014 16:47:06, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:08 PM, David Nyström
>> <david.c.nystrom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Adding ability to use postinstalls intercepts in the nativesdk env, and
>>> making sure the correlate between repo + SDK.
>>>
>>> This to enable rootfs generation from a package repository using only a
>>> package repository and the toolchain tarball.
>>>
>>> See https://github.com/nysan/rootfs-sandbox for examples.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Nyström <david.nystrom at enea.com>
>>
>>
>> Much better. Thanks.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>>
>> Regarding the rootfs-sandbox, how are you intending to proper
>> integrate it with the toolchain?
>>
>
> Search the oe-core list for the previous discussions with Tom Zanussi.
> I believe the long term goals is to redo rootfs_*.bbclass in python, and let
> both bitbake and MIC(WIC) use
> the same code for image creation.(SDK env + bitbake env.)
>
> I'm fine with continued dev/inclusion of rootfs-sandbox, but I think that
> might not be acceptable as a long term solution since
> it may be maintenance heavy, since it uses alot of oe-core internal env.
> vars.
>
> Possible routes are:
> 1. Use common code for rootfs assembly. (WIC)
> 2. Cleanup env. var. usage in postinstall hooks, and be aggressive in
> denying new additions. (Continue dev. on rootfs-sandbox)
>
> Off-topic:
> With above patches, I'm down to 1 postinstall failures for
> packagegroup-core-lsb:
> 1. missing shlibsign, (nss), cant get the damn thing to compile for
> nativesdk yet.
>
> There are 2 other failures as well, but they fail when bitbake:ing as well.
> Only works well with ipk sofar.

So I think we ought to work on this in a layer and put things in
OE-Core when it is ready.

What do you think?

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