[yocto] Building a metapackage

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-03-14 10:34, David Welch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to build a meta packages whose sole purpose is to bring in dependencies?
> 
> Suppose I have package-1.deb, package-2.deb and package-3.deb.  I would like add a .bb file to build a metapackage for those three packages.  I have tried the following but it
> didn't work:
> 
> SUMMARY = "Package"
> DESCRIPTION = ""
> LICENSE = "CLOSED"
> DEPENDS = " \
> package-1 package-2 package-3 \
> "
> inherit meta
> 
> My use case is a series of voices by different manufactures which need to be installed on a per-manufacturer basis.  So all the voices from manufacture1 would need to be installed
> on one machine and all the voices from manufacturer2 need to go on another machine.  There are about 50-100 voice packages per manufacturer.

I think packagegroups (previously known as tasks) are what you are looking for.

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