oelint.vars.pathhardcode

severity: warning

Example

FILES:${PN} += "/usr/share/doc"

Why is this bad?

Bitbake uses variables for certain paths, to enable features like usrmerge or multilib. So the variables could change depending if those features (along others) are used or not. Using hardcoded paths could result in packaging files wrongly or installing files into the wrong paths.

Ways to fix it

The following variables are known

• ${systemd_user_unitdir} => /usr/lib/systemd/user
• ${systemd_system_unitdir} => /lib/systemd/system
• ${docdir} => /usr/share/doc
• ${infodir} => /usr/share/info
• ${mandir} => /usr/share/man
• ${libexecdir} => /usr/libexec
• ${systemd_unitdir} => /lib/systemd
• ${libdir} => /usr/lib
• ${bindir} => /usr/bin
• ${datadir} => /usr/share
• ${includedir} => /usr/include
• ${localstatedir} => /var
• ${nonarch_base_libdir} => /lib
• ${sbindir} => /usr/sbin
• ${servicedir} => /srv
• ${sharedstatedir} => /com
• ${sysconfdir} => /etc

FILES:${PN} += "${docdir}"