[yocto] Cleanly moving files from one package to another

[Bryan Evenson]

Martin,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Jansa [mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 9:39 AM
> To: Bryan Evenson <bevenson at melinkcorp.com>
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Cleanly moving files from one package to another
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:15:05PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote:
> > Martin,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Martin Jansa [mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 4:20 AM
> > > To: Bryan Evenson <bevenson at melinkcorp.com>
> > > Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> > > Subject: Re: [yocto] Cleanly moving files from one package to
> > > another
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 08:19:40PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote:
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > I'm on poky/dizzy-1.7.3 and I'm using opkg for a package manager.
> > > > I have a
> > > few script files that are part of one package that really belong with
> another.
> > > So I updated both recipes, removed the file from one recipe and
> > > added it to the other recipe.  I built everything, made the opkg
> > > feed repo and tried to upgrade with "opkg update; opkg upgrade" to
> > > see how clean the upgrade was.  For each script file I moved from
> > > one package to the other I get an error message of the form:
> > > >
> > > > * check_data_file_clashes: Package A wants to install file
> > > /path/to/script/file
> > > >         But that file is already provided by package  * B
> > > >
> > > > I know I can do "opkg upgrade --force-overwrite", but I'd like to
> > > > make
> > > recipe changes so that it upgrades cleanly.  All I've done in the
> > > recipes is remove the script files from the FILES variable and the
> > > do_install step of one recipe and added the script to the FILES
> > > variable and do_install step of the other recipe.  I know
> > > update-alternatives can be used if more than one package provides
> > > the same binary, but is that necessary in this case when
> > > transferring ownership to another package?  Is there anything else I can
> do in the recipes to prevent the opkg install errors?
> > >
> > > Have you tried to set
> > > RREPLACES_<pkg-new> = "<pkg-old>"
> > > ?
> >
> > I haven't tried that because I'm not replacing a package.  Both packages still
> exist on the system and are both needed, it's just that ownership of one of
> the files is being transferred from one package to another.  Would I still use
> RREPLACES even if I want to keep both packages on the system?
> >
> > Specifically in this case, I have some script files for scheduled tasks that
> were part of one of my self-made packages.  However, they really belong
> with cronie since this is what is calling the scripts.  So I removed the script files
> from my self-made package and added them to cronie.  My package has
> other files still associated with it (that do belong with it) installed on my
> system.  So I want to keep both packages on my system, but I just want to
> change ownership of these script files from my package to cronie.  Is
> RREPLACES the tool for this job?
> 
> > Is RREPLACES the tool for this job?
> 
> Yes, see
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-
> replaces
> 
> opkg should work the same.

Now I'm having something happen that I haven't seen before with the PR service.  I updated my .bbappend to add the RREPLACES as you suggested, but bitbake didn't rebuild the package.  I tried doing bitbake -c clean and bitbake -c cleansstate and both times the built package had the same full version number as it did before I made the RREPLACES change.  I opened the ipk with Archive Manager and looked at DEBIAN/control, and there was no "Depends: " line in the control file.  Then I noticed that this .bbappend had "inherit pkgconfig" and it isn't needed in the .bbappend.  So while I was at it I deleted the line "inherit pkgconfig" and tried to build the package again (without issuing a bitbake -c clean first).  This time it built the package and the PR service incremented the version.  I opened the resulting ipk and looked at DEBIAN/control again, and this time there was a "Depends:" line in the control file.

Is changing RREPLACES not being seen as a metadata change by bitbake?  Is this a bug or is there something else I'm missing?

Thanks,
Bryan

> 
> > > If the old package should be removed completely during opkg upgrade,
> > > then you'll need to set whole combo, that is
> RREPLACES,RCONFLICTS,RPROVIDES.
> 
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