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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 05:10 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
> 
> ---
> 
>   is this the appropriate comment for tarball packaging?
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
> index 555f8db..a200002 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
> +++ b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
> @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ MACHINE ??= "qemux86"
>  #  - 'package_deb' for debian style deb files
>  #  - 'package_ipk' for ipk files are used by opkg (a debian style embedded package manager)
>  #  - 'package_rpm' for rpm style packages
> -# E.g.: PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk"
> +#  - 'package_tar' for tarball packages
> +# E.g.: PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk package_tar"
>  # We default to ipk:
>  PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_ipk"
> 

The class is pretty useless, lets leave this one less documented ;-)

I keep thinking we should delete it instead to be honest...

Cheers,

Richard