[yocto] Need help for custom recipe

[Bipnesh, Abhinav (Abhinav)]

Hi Paul,

Actually we do have existing scripts which create RPM's for other platform i.e. Linux. We would be cross compile the code and want to use the existing scripts for doing it. As the existing RPM spec contain lot of logic for post install, upgrade use case etc. So we can use the current infrastructure but it will be a re-work for us.
So we were thinking to use it.

Thanks,
Abhinav
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From: Paul Eggleton [paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 10:11 PM
To: Bipnesh, Abhinav (Abhinav)
Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Need help for custom recipe

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