[OE-core] curious about why bitbake.conf setting of FILES_${PN}-bin

[Saul Wold]

On 07/15/2014 08:51 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 15 July 2014 16:23, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Blame me for that patch!  Looking back at the commit message from about 2
>> years ago I think this got mid-way through a change, with the plan to
>> actually remove lib_package completely since all it contained was the
>> setting of PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN, therefore having FILES${PN}-bin. Not sure why
>> we did not end up completing that.
>>
>> So another option is to remove the inherits and replace it with
>> PACKAGE_BEFORE_PNs, Which would finish off the orignal plan!
>
> Wouldn't that change the packaging by putting all binaries into a
> PN-bin package?
>
No the change would be to rmove the inherit lib_packaging from the 
recipes that use it and replace that with setting PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN with 
${PN}-bin.  So it's just doing what the recipes do already, not a 
general change in bitbake.conf.

Sau!


> Ross
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