On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 12:21 AM Chuck Wolber <[email protected]> wrote:
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> And finally, I have adjusted to using the following pattern, and found
> that it has improved maintainability a great deal. It applies to DEPENDS
> and RDEPENDS as well. Yes, it is a bit tedious, but the benefits far
> outweigh the cost (IMHO).
>
> FILES_fooz += " lib/foozlib.so"
> FILES_fooz += " /usr/lib/foozlib-2.so"
> FILES_fooz += " /usr/bin/fooz"
> FILES_fooz += " /bin/fooz"
> FILES_fooz += " /usr/share/fooz"
>
> This pattern is invaluable when you start accumulating a lot of recipes. A
> recursive grep (grep -r) across a directory tree, will immediately tell you
> that (for example), /bin/fooz is file in the fooz package and it is
> referenced in the fooz_1.3.2.bb recipe.
>
I forgot one other benefit. When a change is made to a recipe that uses
that pattern, the (Git) commit diff is a lot clearer and easier to
understand.
Think of it this way... Use your pattern, but imagine there are a lot more
entries in your list. A change to the middle of that list is going to
result in a diff that is hard to determine if it is a FILE_fooz entry or a
DEPENDS_${PN} entry. Prefixing with the directive keeps your Git history a
lot clearer.
..Ch:W..
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