RE: [PATCH] meta: add dpkg-prebuilt.bbclass

["Schmidt, Adriaan" <adriaan.schmidt@siemens.com>]

> From: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
> Sent: Mittwoch, 22. September 2021 09:54
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] meta: add dpkg-prebuilt.bbclass
> 
> I am not sure about the magic unpack prepend. I guess if someone want to
> download more stuff they will have to ";unpack=true" to get back to the
> global default.

I guess it's possible to only append ;unpack=false to *.deb sources, but the more important issue that would break "mixed" recipes is removing all tasks between do_unpack and do_deploy_deb.

> It used to be just "a pattern" that could be easily mixed. Being a class
> deleting tasks and messing with SRC_URI is problematic for such mix recipes.
> But in fact one can keep using the "pattern" and not use the class.

It's true that this is not suited for "mixed" recipes that need to build a package and add a prebuilt deb. In that case you would stick to the "pattern" (and probably don't turn do_dpkg_build into a nop).

This proposal covers "inject an existing deb" only, but makes that task as simple as possible.

Adriaan