[yocto] Remove a recipe's do_install_append() function in an append file

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Cody Piersall wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am building zsh from meta-oe layer, and it has a do_install_append()
> function defined like this:
>
> do_install_append () {
>     rm -fr ${D}/usr/share
> }
>
> which gets rid of lots lots of useful functionality, like
> context-aware autocompletion.  Can a bbappend file get rid of that
> function, or do I need to edit the actual recipe? I've attempted
> defining an empty do_install_append() { : } but it didn't work.

  it might be worth asking why zsh is doing that in the first place.
if one doesn't want all that stuff, *that* is where an append could be
used to remove it. i think zsh removing it by default is
inappropriate.

rday

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