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

[Cody Piersall]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Cody Piersall wrote:
>> 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

Good point. I've now posted a patch to the meta-oe mailing list:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2017-March/134575.html

Cody