Re: [gentoo-dev] stupid ebuild question

[Markos Chandras]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 18:39:38 Greg KH wrote:
> Ok, I know I'm doing something stupid here, but I can't figure it out.
>
> I have a new ebuild (linux-firmware) that is really just a tarball that
> needs to be placed somewhere in the filesystem.
>
> So, I do the following:
> 	src_install() {
> 		dodir /lib/firmware
> 		cp -R "${S}/*" "${D}lib/firmware/" || die "Install failed!"
> 	}
>
What I would do is the following
src_install() {
	insinto /lib/firmware/
	doins -r "${S}"/* || die "doins failed"
}
> but that fails badly:
> 	>>> Install linux-firmware-20090421 into
> 	>>> /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20090421/image/ category
> 	>>> sys-kernel
>
> 	cp: cannot stat
> `/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20090421/work/linux-firmware-20
>090421/*': No such file or directory
>
> Yet the files are really in that directory.
>
> I can't drop the trailing "*" on the cp command, otherwise we get the
> directory name that the firmware was expanded into during unpack into
> lib/firmware/.
>
> So, anyone want to apply the cluestick?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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