On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 16:05 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > The reason I suggested the --root option was primarily for the ease of people > who are NOT using the automated scripting, i.e. someone manually adding a > preinst (or similar) to their recipes.
I was thinking about this stuff the other day for update-rc.d. Really, it sucks that all the manually-written postinsts have to include all of this garbage about checking for $D. It also sucks a bit that this same code (for both manually-written and auto-generated postinsts) ends up getting deployed into the packages and onto the target system, where it is at best a waste of space. I think maybe a better way of dealing with that whole thing would be for update-rc.d-native and similar tools to provide a set of wrapper scripts which would take care of all the machinations required to support offline root mode, be that adding "--root $D" or doing stuff with chroot or whatever. If those were installed into some appropriate place in the sysroot then we could arrange for the right directory to be prepended to $PATH during rootfs construction and then everything ought to "just work" without the postinst scripts needing to take any special measures. p. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
