Damn , i did RTFM, but that's not the version i was reading.
That'll teach me !


Thanks for quick response, really sorry , for not reading the latest 
version of the manual.


Take care
Laurent

> Paul Eggleton <mailto:paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> 18 June 2014 18:09
>
> Actually, I was mistaken - it is mentioned in the reference manual:
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-SRC_URI
>
> (FWIW, I'm happy to answer questions even if they are covered by
> the manual, this is just an aside ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> Paul Eggleton <mailto:paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> 18 June 2014 18:06
> Hi Laurent,
>
> if you add ;unpack=0 to the end of the entry for the jar file within 
> SRC_URI,
> it should prevent it from being unpacked.
>
> (I see we don't have this documented anywhere, I will add it to the
> documentation todo list.)
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> Laurent d'Havé <mailto:ldhave@gmail.com>
> 18 June 2014 15:32
> Hello
> In a recipe i'm writing, i need to simply copy a .jar file.
> Since it's specified in SRC_URI , bitbake extracts it, making WORKDIR 
> a complete mess, and makes it impossible to copy the .jar file to 
> destination.
>
>
> How would i go about simply copying it ? Anyway to tell bitbake NOT to 
> extract content of it ?