[yocto] How do I create a recipe for laying down post-build config files?

[Alex J Lennon]

On 09/06/2014 22:44, Jim Rafert wrote:
> I'm trying to gather all my post-build tweaks into a recipe that will
> be built as part of an upper-level layer, so that they are installed
> after the meta layer is processed.  Many of these could be
> accomplished as part of .bbappend files for the recipes that
> originally supply the config files, but I wanted to gather all my
> customizations in one spot, so that they're easy to find.
>
> The recipe doesn't actually build anything, so there's no do_build task.
>
> This is surely something that is commonly wanted.
>
> Here's my current recipe, in spectra-postbuild_0.1.bb.
>
> When I try to build an image, the build fails with
> ERROR: QA Issue: spectra-postbuild: Files/directories were installed
> but not shipped
>   /RELEASE-NOTES.txt
>
> When I disable the installed-vs-shipped QA test,  it fails later when
> it can't find a package file.
>
> I must be missing something critical here?
> SUMMARY = "Post processing of configuration files for SpectraOS"
> SECTION = "base"
> LICENSE = "GPLv2"
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYRIGHT;md5=349c872e0066155e1818b786938876a4"
> RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initscripts"
> PR = "r0"
>
> SRC_URI = "file://inittab \
>        file://fstab \
>        file://rsyslog.conf \
>        file://grub.cfg \
>        file://mount.sh \
>        file://RELEASE-NOTES.txt \

FILES_${PN} =  "/RELEASE_NOTES.txt /Spectra-OS-Version "

RELEASE-NOTES vs RELEASE_NOTES

Cheers,

Alex
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