[oe-issues] [Bug 2471] Hardcoded PACKAGES lines

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http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2471





--- Comment #1 from Jamie Lenehan <lenehan at twibble.org>  2007-06-11 18:47:43 ---
I don't think I agree that it's not needed. It's done on purpose in the
packages I maintain (p3scan, havp, quagga, perl, net-snmp, libnet, rp-pppoe and
probably others).

If we look at rp-pppoe for a minute:

 PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN}-server ${PN}-relay ${PN}-sniff ${PN} ${PN}-doc"

What I needed to do with add ${PN}-server ${PN}-relay ${PN}-sniff prior to
${PN}, but ${PN}-dbg needs to remain first. We all know that you basically
always needs ${PN}-dbg first. In this case ${PN} contains 99% of the files so I
want it *after* the packages that only contain one or two files, otherwise I'd
have to define FILES_ for ${PN} listing 90% of the files from the package. It's
a *lot* easier to simply insert those packages prior to ${PN} and then let the
wildcards for ${PN} pick up everything else that hasn't been explicitly
packaged.

In other cases I've wanted to change the order for a similar reason - to get
the packages with the least amount of files prior to those with lots of files.

If we had a "add package ${PN}-xx before ${PN}" then things would be easier.
Automatically moving -dbg to the front would help in some situations as well.
But I'm not sure there's really any problem with simply defining the packages
list


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