On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Alex Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Rationale: In Jlime we ship a package called jlime-extras which > contains several files (configuration files, scripts, etc.), some > of which conflict with files provided by other packages. This is > intentional, and is for distro customization purposes. For example > we ship a modified version of the /usr/bin/startx script, some > alternative icons for applications, some modified .desktop files > and so on. Building an image with this jlime-extras package fails, > of course, due to conflicting files. >
hmmm ideally there should be no conflicts and update alternative methods should be used to provide alternatives. > To overcome this issue, I have added a base-conditional to > rootfs_ipk.bbclass, adding the PACKAGE_FORCE_OVERWRITE variable > to IPKG_ARGS which enables -force-overwrite for opkg, and which > can be used in image recipes individually without affecting others. > you could have added distro specific overrides or even your own layer to provide these files per recipe instead of collecting them into a another recipe which would step on everyone. I think if we let this happen it can be chosen as a quick workaround by many and thats not good. > I believe this functionality might be useful for everyone and comes > at almost no additional cost, which is why I'm sending this patch > for consideration by the OE developers. > > I'd be more than happy to help in any way in order to get this in. > > Thank you. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Ferguson <[email protected]> > --- > classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass b/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass > index a4a8563..dd8586a 100644 > --- a/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass > +++ b/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass > @@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ do_rootfs[depends] += "opkg-native:do_populate_sysroot" > do_rootfs[lockfiles] = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IPK}.lock" > > IPKG_TMP_DIR = "${IMAGE_ROOTFS}-tmp" > -IPKG_ARGS = "-f ${IPKGCONF_TARGET} -o ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} -t ${IPKG_TMP_DIR} > $...@base_conditional("PACKAGE_INSTALL_NO_DEPS", "1", "-nodeps", "", d)}" > +IPKG_ARGS = "-f ${IPKGCONF_TARGET} -o ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} -t ${IPKG_TMP_DIR} > $...@base_conditional("PACKAGE_INSTALL_NO_DEPS", "1", "-nodeps", "", d)} > $...@base_conditional("PACKAGE_FORCE_OVERWRITE", "1", "-force-overwrite", "", > d)}" > > PACKAGE_INSTALL_NO_DEPS ?= "0" > +PACKAGE_FORCE_OVERWRITE ?= "0" > > # What support to provide for online management of packages at run time? > # full -> traditional system, opkg is installed with all metadata > -- > 1.7.3.2 > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
