[yocto] Need help for custom recipe

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Abhinav,

On Monday 02 February 2015 14:04:49 Bipnesh, Abhinav wrote:
> I am trying to write an custom recipe for one of the application. In the
> do_install() I am using an external script for creating rpm of the
> application. Below is the recipe file which I have written.
> 
> SUMMARY = "Hello World"
> DESCRIPTION = "A recipe for HelloWorld"
> 
> LICENSE = "MIT"
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302<file:
> ///\\$%7bCOMMON_LICENSE_DIR%7d\MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302>
> 
> # Upstream names releases after SVN revs
> #SRCREV = "100"
> SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}"
> PV = "r${SRCREV}"
> DEPENDS = "boost util-linux curl"
> 
> SRC_URI = "file://helloworld.c"
> S = "${WORKDIR}
> 
> do_install () {
>     sh ${WORKDIR}/ build.sh
> 
> }
> 
> Now as this is a makefile based project. Now when I fire bitbake helloworld
> I am able to build the RPM of the package using build.sh file.
> 
> But when I try to check these RPM under <build_dir>/tmp/deploy it is not
> found.

My first question is why do you need to create the RPMs in a custom manner like 
this? By doing so you are bypassing quite a lot of well-tested logic that we 
have written around packaging.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre