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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:50 AM Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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}
>  }

I am also seeing packaging failures

ERROR: os-release-1.0-r0 do_package: QA Issue: os-release:
Files/directories were installed but not shipped in any package:
  /usr
  /usr/lib
  /usr/lib/os-release