[oe] overriding files in a package

[Cliff Brake]

One thing I find myself doing is overriding files in one package with
another package.  As long as the package doing the overriding was last
in the IMAGE_INSTALL variable, this used to work.  Then bitbake
started complaining about overriding packages, but that could be
worked around by doing the following:

RREPLACES_${PN} += "udev"
RREPLACES_${PN} += "tzdata"
RREPLACES_${PN} += "initscripts"

Now it seems that the packages no longer processed as listed in the
IMAGE_INSTALL variable:

| Configuring e2fsprogs-tune2fs.
| Configuring svs-conf.
| Configuring psplash.
| Configuring tslib-tests.
| Configuring tzdata-atlantic.
| Configuring hplip-backend.
| Configuring kernel-module-i2c-pxa.
| Configuring tzdata-australia.
| Configuring kernel-module-ftdi-sio.
| Configuring test-gpio.
| Configuring kernel-module-oprofile.
| Configuring kernel-module-rtl8150.
| Configuring xset.
| Configuring tzdata-antarctica.
| Configuring e2fsprogs-mke2fs.
| Configuring tzdata-asia.
| Configuring diag2020.
| Collected errors:
|  * resolve_conffiles: Existing conffile
/scratch/pp/du-sw-web-builder/pp-du-oe/build/angstrom-2008/tmp/rootfs/svs-nand-test-image/etc/device_table
is different from the conffile in the new package. The new conffile
will be placed at
/scratch/pp/du-sw-web-builder/pp-du-oe/build/angstrom-2008/tmp/rootfs/svs-nand-test-image/etc/device_table-opkg.
|  * check_data_file_clashes: Package sysvinit wants to install file
/scratch/pp/du-sw-web-builder/pp-du-oe/build/angstrom-2008/tmp/rootfs/svs-nand-test-image/etc/init.d/rc
|       But that file is already provided by package  * svs-conf
|  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package sysvinit.
| ERROR: Function do_rootfs failed
NOTE: package svs-nand-test-image-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: Failed

In my IMAGE_INSTALL, svs-conf is last, but its not configured last.
Does this make sense related to recent bitbake and OE changes?

Is http://sakrah.homelinux.org/node/2 the recommended solution for
this problem going forward?  This looks workable, but as I'm
overriding files in 7 packages, this gets a little tedious.

Thanks,
Cliff

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