[yocto] remove /usr/share/terminfo

[Hans Beckerus]

On 2013-03-24 11:06, Jochen Trumpf wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> I am not subscribed to [yocto], just browsing it occasionally, so please
> excuse the private email.
>
> For this sort of thing I am using the following in my image recipe (stolen
> from some gumstix image recipe in meta-gumstix-extras, danny branch):
>
> -- cut --
> # this section removes remnants of legacy sysvinit support
> # for packages installed above
> IMAGE_FILE_BLACKLIST += " \
>                          /etc/init.d/crond \
>                          /etc/init.d/dbus-1 \
>                          /etc/init.d/sshd \
>   "
>
> remove_blacklist_files() {
>          for i in ${IMAGE_FILE_BLACKLIST}; do
>                  rm -rf ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}$i
>          done
>
> }
>
> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND =+ "remove_blacklist_files ; "
> -- cut --
>
> You can add arbitrary commands to ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND, e.g. your link
> to the network share. As you can see, you can use wildcards in the blacklist
> entries, or anything that rm -rf will understand.
>
> In case you want to use a similar mechanism to ADD files that are not already
> present on your build machine, that is not (easily) possible since
> image.bbclass does not support do_fetch, so SRC_URI does not work within an
> image recipe. The philosophy seems to be that you need a separate recipe to
> add things.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Jochen
>
> P.S.: Feel free to forward this to the list if you think it might be
> interesting for other people.

Hi Jochen. Thanks for the information. As you might have seen already, I 
solved it by using a .bbappend for ncurses, but I must admit that your 
solution is a lot more elegant. I will try your approach instead and 
keep it in mind when needing something similar in the future.

Hans