[oe] Staging - time to end the current mess?

[Henning Heinold]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:43:27PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> [...]
> do_compile - up to here all as usual
> do_install - Everything installs into a DESTDIR (including -native)
> do_package - Takes a copy of the DESTDIR, applies any .la/.pc mangling
>              then splits into packages as usual
> do_populate_staging - Takes a copy of the DESTDIR, mangles, installs 
>              into staging and creates staging packages from this
> 
> Firstly, does any disagree with this approach or can we all agree its a
> nice objective?

Yeah thats nice. I will help for instance with pkgconfig-class which now "sed's" the
.pc files in builddir before installing it.

Bye Henning