[yocto] using do_install_append?

[Smith, Daniel W]

> 
> On 2015-10-22 12:26, Smith, Daniel W wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This seems like it should be an easy task, but perhaps I'm missing
> something very basic so it is not working.
> >
> > I have working recipe that installs the fluxbox window manager.  However I
> want to customize the default runtime configuration files located in
> /usr/share/fluxbox.  To do this I
> > created fluxbox_1.3.5.bbappend in order to replace the default
> configuration files with my own.
> >
> > This file contains the following:
> >
> > FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_poky := "${THISDIR}/files:"
> >
> > SRC_URI = "file://apps \
> >
> >             file://init \
> >
> >             file://keys \
> >
> >             file://menu \
> >
> >             file://overlay \
> >
> >             file://windowmenu "
> 
> Shouldn't this be SRC_URI_append ?  Otherwise, your .bbappend will be
> writing over the SRC_URI from the original recipe.
> 
> Also, please CC your replies to the list so that everyone benefits.
> 
[Smith, Daniel W] 
OK, now we are getting somewhere.  It configures now that I fixed it to append.  That was causing it to never fetch the source so it never actually obtained the license file.   Thanks I knew it had to be something very simple I was missing.

I was also missing '$' before the {datadir}.

-Daniel Smith



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