what is the future for package_tar.bbclass?

what is the future for package_tar.bbclass?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  once upon a time, richard purdie didn't see much use for the
packaging class file package_tar.bbclass:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-July/094843.html

however, that packaging format is still mentioned at the very end of
section 3.4 in the YP reference manual. is there a plan for keeping
it, deleting it, ignoring it, etc?

rday

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Re: what is the future for package_tar.bbclass?

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

The class is broken and unsupported.  I have updated the docs indicating such.

Scott

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>  once upon a time, richard purdie didn't see much use for the packaging class
>file package_tar.bbclass:
>
>http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-
>July/094843.html
>
>however, that packaging format is still mentioned at the very end of section
>3.4 in the YP reference manual. is there a plan for keeping it, deleting it,
>ignoring it, etc?
>
>rday
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Re: what is the future for package_tar.bbclass?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 19 January 2015 22:57:37 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> The class is broken and unsupported.  I have updated the docs indicating
> such.

I'm not sure that's true. It's not supported for building images, and it never 
has been. However it can be used for producing tarball packages for individual 
recipes.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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Re: what is the future for package_tar.bbclass?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Monday 19 January 2015 22:57:37 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> > The class is broken and unsupported.  I have updated the docs indicating
> > such.
>
> I'm not sure that's true. It's not supported for building images,
> and it never has been. However it can be used for producing tarball
> packages for individual recipes.

  i have no strong feelings either way, i was just repeating an
observation of mine from a while back that the tar packaging seemed to
get precious little attention compared to the three "standard"
packaging formats.

rday

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