[yocto] FILES_${PN} packaging and wildcarded exclusions

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Alex,

On Tuesday 04 March 2014 10:10:13 Alex J Lennon wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how to cleanly extend FILES${PN} to include
> files that are staged and need to be packaged
> 
> If I start with something like
> 
> FILES_${PN} += " \
> ${libdir}/mono/gac/policy.0.2.Mono.Addins/0.0.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756/* \
> ${libdir}/mono/gac/policy.0.2.Mono.Addins.Setup/0.0.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756/*
> \
> ${libdir}/mono/gac/policy.0.6.Mono.Addins.CecilReflector/0.0.0.0__0738eb9f13
> 2ed756/* \
> ${libdir}/mono/gac/policy.0.6.Mono.Addins.Gui/0.0.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756/* \
> <snip/>
> 
> I seem to be able to clean that up a bit to
> 
> FILES_${PN} += " \
> ${libdir}/mono/gac/*/*/* \
> <snip/>
> 
> What I'd like to do is to be able to represent "all files excepting
> files ending with .mdb", for example, as I want to add those to a
> ${PN}-dbg package.
> 
> I was wondering if there's a syntax I can use within FILES_${PN} to
> achieve that cleanly?

There isn't I'm afraid - the tools you have available are wildcards and the 
ordering of PACKAGES, since the first package whose FILES value matches a file 
will get the file. However, for this specific case this should be just fine - 
${PN}-dbg appears before ${PN} in the default value of PACKAGES, so you just 
need to ensure FILES_${PN}-dbg is extended as needed.

Cheers,
Paul 

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre