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

[Khem Raj]

On 3/28/17 11:19 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:27:15AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Cody Piersall <cody at arrc.ou.edu> 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.
>>>
>>
>> if its in a bbappend, there is not much you can do about undoing it except
>> to not apply the bbappend or modify it directly.
>>
>> So you can send a patch to meta-oe to convince that its a good idea to keep
>> /usr/share for zsh, or you can carry a local patch to meta-oe where you undo it
> 
> Perhaps instead of deleting it, it should be put in another package that
> people can choose to install if they want it.  Deleting it certainly
> does seem rather unfortunate if someone actulally wanted it.
> 

We put common stuff in commonly used layers. Secondly, a patch to
package the content of /usr/share into a package of its own something
like zsh-misc might be OK and we don't have to delete it and keep both
camps happy.

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