* is IMAGE_PKGTYPE of 'tar' even supported anymore? @ 2025-07-24 20:30 Robert P. J. Day 2025-07-25 7:31 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2025-07-24 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: YP docs mailing list docs sort of suggest it, but code sure doesn't seem to support it. rday ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [docs] is IMAGE_PKGTYPE of 'tar' even supported anymore? 2025-07-24 20:30 is IMAGE_PKGTYPE of 'tar' even supported anymore? Robert P. J. Day @ 2025-07-25 7:31 ` Antonin Godard 2025-07-25 8:01 ` Robert P. J. Day 2025-07-25 8:55 ` Robert P. J. Day 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Antonin Godard @ 2025-07-25 7:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Robert P. J. Day, YP docs mailing list On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > docs sort of suggest it, but code sure doesn't seem to support it. Good catch, it was removed in 2023: 90ce19122802 ("meta/classes-global: remove package_tar.bbclass") in OE-Core. Do you want to work on a patch to remove references to it? Thanks, Antonin -- Antonin Godard, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [docs] is IMAGE_PKGTYPE of 'tar' even supported anymore? 2025-07-25 7:31 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard @ 2025-07-25 8:01 ` Robert P. J. Day 2025-07-25 8:55 ` Robert P. J. Day 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2025-07-25 8:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: antonin.godard; +Cc: YP docs mailing list On Fri, 25 Jul 2025, Antonin Godard via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > docs sort of suggest it, but code sure doesn't seem to support it. > > Good catch, it was removed in 2023: 90ce19122802 ("meta/classes-global: remove > package_tar.bbclass") in OE-Core. > > Do you want to work on a patch to remove references to it? i'll put something together this weekend. rday ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [docs] is IMAGE_PKGTYPE of 'tar' even supported anymore? 2025-07-25 7:31 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard 2025-07-25 8:01 ` Robert P. J. Day @ 2025-07-25 8:55 ` Robert P. J. Day 2025-07-25 9:00 ` Antonin Godard 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2025-07-25 8:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: antonin.godard; +Cc: YP docs mailing list On Fri, 25 Jul 2025, Antonin Godard via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > docs sort of suggest it, but code sure doesn't seem to support it. > > Good catch, it was removed in 2023: 90ce19122802 ("meta/classes-global: remove > package_tar.bbclass") in OE-Core. > > Do you want to work on a patch to remove references to it? should the variable glossary entry for IMAGE_PKGTYPE still contain the note: "Files using the .tar format are never used as a substitute packaging format for DEB, RPM, and IPK formatted files for your image or SDK." i mean, technically, the note is still true, but is it meaningful anymore? or should it be deleted? rday ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [docs] is IMAGE_PKGTYPE of 'tar' even supported anymore? 2025-07-25 8:55 ` Robert P. J. Day @ 2025-07-25 9:00 ` Antonin Godard 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Antonin Godard @ 2025-07-25 9:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Robert P. J. Day; +Cc: YP docs mailing list On Fri Jul 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2025, Antonin Godard via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > >> On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > >> > docs sort of suggest it, but code sure doesn't seem to support it. >> >> Good catch, it was removed in 2023: 90ce19122802 ("meta/classes-global: remove >> package_tar.bbclass") in OE-Core. >> >> Do you want to work on a patch to remove references to it? > > should the variable glossary entry for IMAGE_PKGTYPE still contain > the note: > > "Files using the .tar format are never used as a substitute packaging > format for DEB, RPM, and IPK formatted files for your image or SDK." > > i mean, technically, the note is still true, but is it meaningful > anymore? or should it be deleted? I understand this line as "we support it, but don't use it"... but since it's not supported anymore, I'd remove it to avoid confusion. Antonin -- Antonin Godard, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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