Hi Robert, for this kind of things I usually run bitbake -e dropbear > out-before.txt, remove the line, then run bitbake -e dropbear > out-after.txt, and finally vimdiff out-before.txt out-after.txt
Etienne On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > (NOTE: i'm currently tutoring some colleagues in the basics of OE > and using standard OE recipes as examples of good programming > practice, so occasionally i run across something that looks strange > and i just want to clarify so i don't have to say, "i don't know, i > guess there's a reason for that, i just don't know what it is." so, > first question that has arisen ...) > > in current dropbear recipe, very last line: > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__git.openembedded.org_openembedded-2Dcore_tree_meta_recipes-2Dcore_dropbear_dropbear-5F2022.83.bb-23n134&d=DwIBAg&c=ncDTmphkJTvjIDPh0hpF_4vCHvabgGkICC2epckfdiw&r=AhkbNonVuMIGRfPx_Qj9TsRih1DULJTKUkSGa66m67E&m=W9n61A0zDvN6Tj5VtV34qyc-BOCTDVwKaiOFK5rQRDBz5hCnNdgxjqE-W6fBEXyw&s=WplZmxLv9Ks1Z_nFQ7ut5gDiJmOB4sSHSneLPg015Z0&e= > > the line: > > FILES:${PN} += "${bindir}" > > but as i read bitbake.conf, ${bindir} is *already* part of FILES:${PN} > and i see nothing in the rest of the dropbear recipe that redefines > the PACKAGES or reorders them. is there some point to that last line > that i am simply missing? it seems unnecessary. > > rday > > > >
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