[yocto] How to customize a file coming from another recipe?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 12 September 2013 13:53:49 Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Paul Eggleton <
> paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > Is the best course to create a recipe bbappend for the
> > > lighttpd_1.4.31.bb file that is being used?  And can I just include a new
> > > file with the same name in my append and will it overwrite the old one,
> > > or do I need to create an actual patch file?
> > 
> > So, since this config file is provided along with the original recipe, and
> > is already mentioned in SRC_URI and installed within do_install, you only
> > need to extend FILESEXTRAPATHS in your bbappend so that the system can
> > pick up your version of the file. Outright replacing the file is the easiest
> > way here rather than trying to patch it.
> > 
> > So in your bbappend you would have:
> > 
> > FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
> 
> how about if the lighttpd.conf file needs to be fetched (git or svn)
> instead added in the same repo as the recipe?

If fetching from git/svn then you'd just add an entry to SRC_URI, and the file 
would be fetched into a subdirectory; you'd then just have a do_install() / 
do_install_append() to install the version of the file from within that 
subdirectory.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre