From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: RFC: feature request - wrap sources
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:53:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198230789.4636.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476B7A8D.4070603@gmx.net>
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:34 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote:
> I have a feature request that should help dealing with those source
> tarballs which do not contain a proper top level directory. The idea is
> to allow to add a parameter 'wrap' to the SRC_URI entry denoting the
> source tarball. If it is present (and 1) the unpacker creates a
> directory named ${P} and unpacks the tarball therein.
>
> This would make it unneccessary to change S for such packages and
> furthermore the work directory is not cluttered with files and folders
> from inside the source tarball.
>
> Like it? (Any pointer where such code should be put?)
Would it not be simpler just to specify an attribute like unpacksubdir
which you could set to ${PN}-${PV}?
That way you have a generic and simpler solution?
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-21 8:34 RFC: feature request - wrap sources Robert Schuster
2007-12-21 9:53 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2007-12-21 10:24 ` Robert Schuster
2007-12-21 11:16 ` Paul Sokolovsky
2007-12-21 13:57 ` Richard Purdie
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