[OE-core] [PATCH] os-release: fix to install in the expected location

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Sep 4 15:50:00 UTC 2018


From: Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock at intel.com>

os-release (5) recommends that the os-release file be installed in
/usr/lib/os-release and that /etc/os-release be a relative symlink to it.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
---
 meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb b/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
index f9887047561..c6e36001dc5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 inherit allarch
 
 SUMMARY = "Operating system identification"
-DESCRIPTION = "The /etc/os-release file contains operating system identification data."
+DESCRIPTION = "The /usr/lib/os-release file contains operating system identification data."
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
 
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ python do_compile () {
 do_compile[vardeps] += "${OS_RELEASE_FIELDS}"
 
 do_install () {
-    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
-    install -m 0644 os-release ${D}${sysconfdir}/
+    install -d ${D}${libdir}
+    install -m 0644 os-release ${D}${libdir}/
+    lnr ${D}${libdir}/os-release ${D}${sysconfdir}
 }
-- 
2.11.0




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