IMAGE_LOCALES_ARCHIVE: add option to prevent locale archive creation

Under some circumstances it is not desirable to create a combined locale
archive (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive).
The new variable IMAGE_LOCALES_ARCHIVE defaults to '1', so the default
behaviour is not changed.

(From OE-Core rev: 8d78b819c2ec33fce3a34254fa90864ee5fa7617)

Signed-off-by: Michael Thalmeier <michael.thalmeier@hale.at>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py
index 865d6f9493..42225a3b2e 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py
@@ -397,12 +397,13 @@ class PackageManager(object, metaclass=ABCMeta):
                          "'%s' returned %d:\n%s" %
                          (' '.join(cmd), e.returncode, e.output.decode("utf-8")))
 
-        target_arch = self.d.getVar('TARGET_ARCH')
-        localedir = oe.path.join(self.target_rootfs, self.d.getVar("libdir"), "locale")
-        if os.path.exists(localedir) and os.listdir(localedir):
-            generate_locale_archive(self.d, self.target_rootfs, target_arch, localedir)
-            # And now delete the binary locales
-            self.remove(fnmatch.filter(self.list_installed(), "glibc-binary-localedata-*"), False)
+        if self.d.getVar('IMAGE_LOCALES_ARCHIVE') == '1':
+            target_arch = self.d.getVar('TARGET_ARCH')
+            localedir = oe.path.join(self.target_rootfs, self.d.getVar("libdir"), "locale")
+            if os.path.exists(localedir) and os.listdir(localedir):
+                generate_locale_archive(self.d, self.target_rootfs, target_arch, localedir)
+                # And now delete the binary locales
+                self.remove(fnmatch.filter(self.list_installed(), "glibc-binary-localedata-*"), False)
 
     def deploy_dir_lock(self):
         if self.deploy_dir is None: