[OE-core] [PATCH] opkg/package/rootfs_ipk: allow overwriting OPKGLIBDIR

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 02:52:21PM +0300, Adrian Ratiu wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why don't you overwrite it with an override? We're doing that 
> > for years without any issues.
> 
> You mean a distro-wide override in a .conf?

yes

> Can you please point to an example?

https://github.com/webosose/meta-webosose/blob/master/meta-webos/conf/distro/include/webos.inc#L256

> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:01 AM Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu at collabora.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Some distributions for various reasons (like for example mounting a
> >> tmpfs over /var at runtime) can't use /var/lib to store the opkg
> >> metadata, so a different path is required to have a functioning
> >> package manager.
> >>
> >> ${localstatedir} can't be modified to something other than the
> >> hardcoded value in bitbake.conf because other recipes depending on it
> >> will fail to install.
> >>
> >> So the only recourse, which is also the least invasive, is to allow
> >> distros to overwrite the OPKGLIBDIR variable just like they are also
> >> allowed to overwrite OPKGBUILDCMD.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu at collabora.com>
> >> ---
> >>  meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass         | 2 +-
> >>  meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass          | 2 +-
> >>  meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.4.1.bb | 2 +-
> >>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass
> >> b/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass
> >> index d1b317b42b..9f9da2f91d 100644
> >> --- a/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass
> >> +++ b/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass
> >> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ OPKG_ARGS += "--force_postinstall
> >> --prefer-arch-to-version"
> >>  OPKG_ARGS += "${@['',
> >> '--no-install-recommends'][d.getVar("NO_RECOMMENDATIONS") == "1"]}"
> >>  OPKG_ARGS += "${@['', '--add-exclude ' + ' --add-exclude
> >> '.join((d.getVar('PACKAGE_EXCLUDE') or
> >> "").split())][(d.getVar("PACKAGE_EXCLUDE") or "").strip() != ""]}"
> >>
> >> -OPKGLIBDIR = "${localstatedir}/lib"
> >> +OPKGLIBDIR ??= "${localstatedir}/lib"
> >>
> >>  python do_package_ipk () {
> >>      workdir = d.getVar('WORKDIR')
> >> diff --git a/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
> >> b/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
> >> index aabc370cfc..e73d2bfdae 100644
> >> --- a/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
> >> +++ b/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
> >> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ OPKG_PREPROCESS_COMMANDS = ""
> >>
> >>  OPKG_POSTPROCESS_COMMANDS = ""
> >>
> >> -OPKGLIBDIR = "${localstatedir}/lib"
> >> +OPKGLIBDIR ??= "${localstatedir}/lib"
> >>
> >>  MULTILIBRE_ALLOW_REP = "${OPKGLIBDIR}/opkg|/usr/lib/opkg"
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.4.1.bb
> >> b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.4.1.bb
> >> index 8c48d3097c..c663eff13b 100644
> >> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.4.1.bb
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.4.1.bb
> >> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ PACKAGES =+ "libopkg"
> >>  inherit autotools pkgconfig systemd ptest
> >>
> >>  target_localstatedir := "${localstatedir}"
> >> -OPKGLIBDIR = "${target_localstatedir}/lib"
> >> +OPKGLIBDIR ??= "${target_localstatedir}/lib"
> >>
> >>  PACKAGECONFIG ??= "libsolv"
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.22.0
> >>
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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