[oe] adding German local files to an image

[Otavio Salvador]

Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> writes:

> Cliff Brake wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Cliff Brake<cliff.brake at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Another observation, I can install glibc-locale-de on a device using
>>> opkg, but not at rootfs time:
>>>
>>> Works on device:
>>>
>>> root@:~# opkg install glibc-locale-de
>>> Installing glibc-locale-de (2.6.1-r4) to root...
>>> Downloading http://hq.bec-systems.com/feeds/armv5te/glibc-locale-de_2.6.1-r4_armv5te.ipk
>>> 100% |========================================================================|
>>> Configuring glibc-locale-de
>>> root@:~# opkg files glibc-locale-de
>>> Package glibc-locale-de (2.6.1-r4) is installed on root and has the
>>> following files:
>>> /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo
>>>
>>> But not at rootfs build time if I add glibc-locale-de to IMAGE_INSTALL
>>>
>>> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
>>> ERROR: '['/build//_build/oe/oe/custom/packages/images/rootfs-vac-table-image.bb']'
>>> RDEPENDS/RRECOMMENDS or otherwise requires the runtime entity
>>> 'glibc-locale-de' but it wasn't found in any PACKAGE or RPROVIDES
>>> variables
>>> NOTE: Runtime target 'glibc-locale-de' is unbuildable, removing...
>>> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['glibc-locale-de']
>>> ERROR: Required build target 'rootfs-vac-table-image' has no buildable
>>> providers.
>>> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was:
>>> ['rootfs-vac-table-image', 'glibc-locale-de']
>>> cbrake at happy:/build//_build/oe$
>>
>> The reason for the above behavior is locale packages are created
>> dynamically, so bitbake has no knowledge of them.  Adding the
>> following to bitbake.conf as as suggested on IRC last night would fix
>> that:
>>
>> PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "${PN}-locale-*"
>>
>> Any objections to adding this?
>
> Yes, since it's wrong for most packages. Only packages with locales
> will generated locales, and even for those we also have a global
> USE_NLS switch to disable that.
>
> So: Nack

A better alternative would be a way to plug it into the locale package
generation code on package class however I failed to do that in my try.

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