On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Richard Leitner wrote:
> Hello folks,
> is there a possibility to force a recipe to provide a specific file?
>
> My problem is that my own recipe is providing a file which is already provided
> by another recipe. I don't want to change that other recipe and the rootfs
> should include both package but only the specified file from my package.
>
> The following message is produced by bitbake:
>
> WARNING: The recipe ghostscript is trying to install files into a shared area
> when those files already exist. Those files and their manifest location are:
> /opt/yocto/poky/build_2.2/tmp/sysroots/board/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstopxl
> Matched in manifest-board-cups-filters.populate_sysroot
> /opt/yocto/poky/build_2.2/tmp/sysroots/board/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster
> Matched in manifest-board-cups-filters.populate_sysroot
> Please verify which package should provide the above files.
>
> The only solution which came to my mind is to remove the file from the
> original
> recipe using a bbappend, but I think this isn't a really "clean" way.
>
> Does anybody have another/better idea how to solve this "problem"?
why not just provide a .bbappend file and an overriding file?
rday
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