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+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+WORKDIR_PKGDATA = "${WORKDIR}/pkgdata-sysroot"
+
+def package_populate_pkgdata_dir(pkgdatadir, d):
+    import glob
+
+    postinsts = []
+    seendirs = set()
+    stagingdir = d.getVar("PKGDATA_DIR")
+    pkgarchs = ['${MACHINE_ARCH}']
+    pkgarchs = pkgarchs + list(reversed(d.getVar("PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS").split()))
+    pkgarchs.append('allarch')
+
+    bb.utils.mkdirhier(pkgdatadir)
+    for pkgarch in pkgarchs:
+        for manifest in glob.glob(d.expand("${SSTATE_MANIFESTS}/manifest-%s-*.packagedata" % pkgarch)):
+            with open(manifest, "r") as f:
+                for l in f:
+                    l = l.strip()
+                    dest = l.replace(stagingdir, "")
+                    if l.endswith("/"):
+                        staging_copydir(l, pkgdatadir, dest, seendirs)
+                        continue
+                    try:
+                        staging_copyfile(l, pkgdatadir, dest, postinsts, seendirs)
+                    except FileExistsError:
+                        continue
+
+python package_prepare_pkgdata() {
+    import copy
+    import glob
+
+    taskdepdata = d.getVar("BB_TASKDEPDATA", False)
+    mytaskname = d.getVar("BB_RUNTASK")
+    if mytaskname.endswith("_setscene"):
+        mytaskname = mytaskname.replace("_setscene", "")
+    workdir = d.getVar("WORKDIR")
+    pn = d.getVar("PN")
+    stagingdir = d.getVar("PKGDATA_DIR")
+    pkgdatadir = d.getVar("WORKDIR_PKGDATA")
+
+    # Detect bitbake -b usage
+    nodeps = d.getVar("BB_LIMITEDDEPS") or False
+    if nodeps:
+        staging_package_populate_pkgdata_dir(pkgdatadir, d)
+        return
+
+    start = None
+    configuredeps = []
+    for dep in taskdepdata:
+        data = taskdepdata[dep]
+        if data[1] == mytaskname and data[0] == pn:
+            start = dep
+            break
+    if start is None:
+        bb.fatal("Couldn't find ourself in BB_TASKDEPDATA?")
+
+    # We need to figure out which sysroot files we need to expose to this task.
+    # This needs to match what would get restored from sstate, which is controlled
+    # ultimately by calls from bitbake to setscene_depvalid().
+    # That function expects a setscene dependency tree. We build a dependency tree
+    # condensed to inter-sstate task dependencies, similar to that used by setscene
+    # tasks. We can then call into setscene_depvalid() and decide
+    # which dependencies we can "see" and should expose in the recipe specific sysroot.
+    setscenedeps = copy.deepcopy(taskdepdata)
+
+    start = set([start])
+
+    sstatetasks = d.getVar("SSTATETASKS").split()
+    # Add recipe specific tasks referenced by setscene_depvalid()
+    sstatetasks.append("do_stash_locale")
+
+    # If start is an sstate task (like do_package) we need to add in its direct dependencies
+    # else the code below won't recurse into them.
+    for dep in set(start):
+        for dep2 in setscenedeps[dep][3]:
+            start.add(dep2)
+        start.remove(dep)
+
+    # Create collapsed do_populate_sysroot -> do_populate_sysroot tree
+    for dep in taskdepdata:
+        data = setscenedeps[dep]
+        if data[1] not in sstatetasks:
+            for dep2 in setscenedeps:
+                data2 = setscenedeps[dep2]
+                if dep in data2[3]:
+                    data2[3].update(setscenedeps[dep][3])
+                    data2[3].remove(dep)
+            if dep in start:
+                start.update(setscenedeps[dep][3])
+                start.remove(dep)
+            del setscenedeps[dep]
+
+    # Remove circular references
+    for dep in setscenedeps:
+        if dep in setscenedeps[dep][3]:
+            setscenedeps[dep][3].remove(dep)
+
+    # Direct dependencies should be present and can be depended upon
+    for dep in set(start):
+        if setscenedeps[dep][1] == "do_packagedata":
+            if dep not in configuredeps:
+                configuredeps.append(dep)
+
+    msgbuf = []
+    # Call into setscene_depvalid for each sub-dependency and only copy sysroot files
+    # for ones that would be restored from sstate.
+    done = list(start)
+    next = list(start)
+    while next:
+        new = []
+        for dep in next:
+            data = setscenedeps[dep]
+            for datadep in data[3]:
+                if datadep in done:
+                    continue
+                taskdeps = {}
+                taskdeps[dep] = setscenedeps[dep][:2]
+                taskdeps[datadep] = setscenedeps[datadep][:2]
+                retval = setscene_depvalid(datadep, taskdeps, [], d, msgbuf)
+                done.append(datadep)
+                new.append(datadep)
+                if retval:
+                    msgbuf.append("Skipping setscene dependency %s" % datadep)
+                    continue
+                if datadep not in configuredeps and setscenedeps[datadep][1] == "do_packagedata":
+                    configuredeps.append(datadep)
+                    msgbuf.append("Adding dependency on %s" % setscenedeps[datadep][0])
+                else:
+                    msgbuf.append("Following dependency on %s" % setscenedeps[datadep][0])
+        next = new
+
+    # This logging is too verbose for day to day use sadly
+    #bb.debug(2, "\n".join(msgbuf))
+
+    seendirs = set()
+    postinsts = []
+    multilibs = {}
+    manifests = {}
+
+    msg_adding = []
+
+    for dep in configuredeps:
+        c = setscenedeps[dep][0]
+        msg_adding.append(c)
+
+        manifest, d2 = oe.sstatesig.find_sstate_manifest(c, setscenedeps[dep][2], "packagedata", d, multilibs)
+        destsysroot = pkgdatadir
+
+        if manifest:
+            targetdir = destsysroot
+            with open(manifest, "r") as f:
+                manifests[dep] = manifest
+                for l in f:
+                    l = l.strip()
+                    dest = targetdir + l.replace(stagingdir, "")
+                    if l.endswith("/"):
+                        staging_copydir(l, targetdir, dest, seendirs)
+                        continue
+                    staging_copyfile(l, targetdir, dest, postinsts, seendirs)
+
+    bb.note("Installed into pkgdata-sysroot: %s" % str(msg_adding))
+
+}
+package_prepare_pkgdata[cleandirs] = "${WORKDIR_PKGDATA}"
+package_prepare_pkgdata[vardepsexclude] += "MACHINE_ARCH PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS SDK_ARCH BUILD_ARCH SDK_OS BB_TASKDEPDATA SSTATETASKS"
+
+