[yocto] Building a metapackage

[David Welch]

Thanks for your quick reponses, that works.


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> 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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