[OE-core] [PATCH] package_rpm.bbclass: support packaging of symlinks to directories

[Dan McGregor]

On 17 Feb 2015 11:09, "Mark Hatle" <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/17/15 10:57 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com
> > <mailto:mark.hatle at windriver.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2/17/15 7:42 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> >     > os.walk() returns symlinks to directories in the "dirs" lists,
> >     > but then never enters them by default. As a result, the old
> >     > code applied neither the directory handling (because that
> >     > is active once a directory gets entered) nor the file handling,
> >     > and thus never packaged such symlinks.
> >     >
> >     > The fix is simple: find such special directory entries and move
> >     > them to the "files" list.
> >
> >     I'm curious, what is the problem that is being fixed with this.
> >
> >     Normally you don't want to walk into symlinks to directories, as
either you want
> >     to capture the symlink itself -- or the symlink is pointing to
something you
> >     don't have access to when packaging (i.e. /proc).
> >
> >
> > This patch doesn't make it walk into the directory symlinks, it moves
them into
> > the files list rather than the dirs list so they'll be captured
themselves, as
> > far as I can tell from reading it.
>
> Ok.. I missed that bit.. I'm still curious what this fixes.
>

I haven't tried myself, but I expect it helps with the /usr merge.

> --Mark
>
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