[yocto] lmsensors

[Marc Ferland]

Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> writes:

> On Tuesday 14 May 2013 11:21:49 Satya Swaroop Damarla wrote:
>> It has been a month I have been fighting with installing the package
>> "lmsensors" and had no success till today.... I would really appreciate
>> much help....
>> 
>> The background goes like this..
>> 
>> *bitbake lmsensors * works perfectly but when I add the package into the
>> rootfs I get the following error
>> 
>> * Package lmsensors-config is not available, but is referred to by another
>> package.*
>
> Looking at the output of building the current lmsensors recipe in meta-oe 
> master, the main "lmsensors" package is actually empty and thus is not 
> produced; this is a bit annoying and should probably be fixed. However what I 
> think you're supposed to do is instead install the components of lmsensors 
> that you actually need. If you look at packages-split in the lmsensors work 
> directory (or the lmsensors* packages in tmp/deploy/ipk) you'll see it 
> produces the following, ignoring dbg/dev/doc/staticdev packages:
>
Hi Paul,

When I first wrote the lmsensors recipe I noticed that lmsensors is
actually a collection of tools which serve very different purposes. For
example, the sensorsdetect and pwmconfig tools are only needed to
produce configuration files for libsensors and fancontrol (resp.). Once
the system is configured, they can be removed.

I followed the idea from the original lmsensors recipe from oe.

What should the recipe actually install when bitbaking only the "main"
package? The main lmsensors library? Everything? 

Regards,

Marc