[oe] QA for intentionally unpackaged files

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Koen,

Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 2:26:03 PM, you wrote:


> Junqian Gordon Xu schreef:
>> Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Or we could patch package.bbclass[1] to do:
>>>
>>> PACKAGES += "${PN}-leftovers"
>>> FILES_${PN}-leftovers = "/"
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if that works, but if it does, we would be able to spot leftovers more easily
>>> by looking at deploy.
>> 
>> Again, how do you know which one is "intentionally" left-over vs. which 
>> one is not?

> I can't think of a valid reason for not packaging files.

        busybox doesn't package symlinks, as update-alternative
recreates them on install.


        But I agree that catch-all package is better idea than another
adhoc var. Except that we probably should add ${PN}-unshipped and
${PN}-leftovers to distinguish those intentional vs missed cases.

> regards,

> Koen

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