[yocto] How to enforce installation of image specific config file/package

[Isak Lichtenstein]

Hi Joël,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One idea may be to create one recipe per configuration file.
> So in each image recipe, you would add one of those recipes to
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append.

That's exactly what I'm doing now. But as my base package "A" is in a 
layer that is used by other developers, I would like to enforce somehow
that every image containing this package also provides a config package
for it.

BR

Isak
> 
> Interested in other ideas for this use case!
> 
> Joël Esponde
> Honeywell | Sensing and Productivity Solutions
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
> > bounces at yoctoproject.org] De la part de Isak Lichtenstein Envoyé :
> > vendredi 1 avril 2016 11:35 À : yocto at yoctoproject.org Objet : [yocto]
> > How to enforce installation of image specific config file/package
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a package "A" that has a runtime dependency to a configuration file.
> > This configuration file is image specific. For each image I've got a
> > specific configuration package "config-image-X" that installs this
> > needed configuration file and I build multiple image in the same build directory.
> > How can I enforce that each image containing package "A" also installs
> > an image specific configuration package?
> > I've tried with virtual providers, but then at the second image it
> > always tried to install the virtual provider from the first image as
> > well, which leads to the following failure during the rootfs task:
> >
> > check_data_file_clashes: Package config-image-1 wants to install file
> > /home/root/build/build_dev/tmp/work/poky-linux-gnueabi/core-image-
> > test/1.0-r0/rootfs/usr/bin/config
> > 	But that file is already provided by package  * config-image-2
> >
> >
> > I'm using yocto jethro.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Isak
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