[yocto] Remove unwanted package from Qt

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 16 January 2013 23:26:20 Navani Srivastava wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Jon Szymaniak 
<jon.szymaniak at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >> I am compiling Qt-4.8.0 with poky-denzil-7.0 for arm1136 architecture.
> > >> 
> > >> At the time of integrating qt-embedded with rootfs, I am getting qtopia
> > >> directory in usr/share path of rootfs.
> > >> 
> > >> I tried removing qtopia directory through qt recipe but ended in
> > >> compilation error. Please suggest any idea to remove qtopia from share
> > >> directory.
> > > 
> > > I ran into this as well after using a bbappend to disable a number of
> > > Qt features, including the building of demos that get staged in the
> > > aforementioned path.  In my case, that qtopia directory (and any
> > > subdirectories) wound up either being empty or containing files that
> > > were unnecessary for my build.
> > > 
> > > My quick and dirty solution was to just to add a install_append()
> > > containing a 'rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/qtopia' in my bbappend. (Be sure
> > > you don't have anything important in there!) I'd be curious to hear if
> > > there's a better approach to this as well...
> > 
> > Oops...just wanted to note the typo in my above response -- I'm not at
> > a machine where I have access to my recipes.
> > 
> > That should be a do_install_append(), not install_append().  I'd also
> > double check the qtopia path, as I wrote that from memory, which may
> > not be reliable. ;)
>
> I tried the same but again ended up with error. As of now i am removing all
> unwanted things from rootfs by making changes in image_types.bbclass. I am
> sure this is not the correct way, any ideas are appreciated..

Can I ask both of you exactly how you are getting Qt installed into the image?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre