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authorLeonid Borisenko <ive.found@gmail.com>2012-11-16 18:29:26 +0000
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-01-28 00:48:24 +0000
commit773d7352309241e15ef5acadcbe416bdd7d45c18 (patch)
tree67602f1f45fddf02374adf4c0c1aa8d24e737caa /meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
parent98ea2fc35a3ef609a944929e21e0f9be2889036d (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-773d7352309241e15ef5acadcbe416bdd7d45c18.tar.gz
package_{ipk, deb, rpm}.bbclass: support additional user-defined metadata
Additional metadata from user-defined variable is written into control/spec file of binary package. Three variables are searched for adiitional package metadata: * PACKAGE_ADD_METADATA_<PKGTYPE>_<PN> * PACKAGE_ADD_METADATA_<PKGTYPE> * PACKAGE_ADD_METADATA First found variable with defined value wins. <PN> is a package name. <PKGTYPE> is a distinct name of specific package type: * IPK for .ipk packages * DEB for .deb packages * RPM for .rpm packages Variable can contain multiple [one-line] metadata fields separated by literal sequence '\n'. Separator can be redefined through variable flag 'separator'. In package control/spec file separator is replaced by newline character. Signed-off-by: Leonid Borisenko <ive.found@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass b/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
index 82ff432f71..5d316aa8b2 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
@@ -318,6 +318,11 @@ python do_package_deb () {
raise bb.build.FuncFailed("Missing field for deb generation: %s" % value)
# more fields
+ custom_fields_chunk = get_package_additional_metadata("deb", localdata)
+ if custom_fields_chunk is not None:
+ ctrlfile.write(unicode(custom_fields_chunk))
+ ctrlfile.write("\n")
+
mapping_rename_hook(localdata)
def debian_cmp_remap(var):