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

[Alex J Lennon]

On 04/03/2014 11:01, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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.

Oh great, thanks. So as long as I make sure the order of precedence is
as needed in PACKAGES then the files will go in the right packages.

I wonder if there's any benefit to allowing regexp in FILES_
definitions? Or if that's just overcomplicating something that already
works?


> Cheers,
> Paul 
>

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