Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] bin_package.bbclass: emphasize setting of S with "subdir"

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, 2020-04-04 at 09:01 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2020-04-04 at 08:00 -0400, rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
> > > Clarify the setting of "S" so there is absolutely no confusion.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/meta/classes/bin_package.bbclass
> > > b/meta/classes/bin_package.bbclass
> > > index cbc9b1fa13..4e74557967 100644
> > > --- a/meta/classes/bin_package.bbclass
> > > +++ b/meta/classes/bin_package.bbclass
> > > @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
> > >  #
> > >  # SRC_URI = "http://foo.com/foo-1.0-r1.i586.rpm;subdir=foo-1.0"
> > >  #
> > > -# Then the files would be unpacked to ${WORKDIR}/foo-1.0,
> > > otherwise
> > > -# they would be in ${WORKDIR}.
> > > +# Then the files would be unpacked to S=${WORKDIR}/foo-1.0,
> > > otherwise
> > > +# they would be in S=${WORKDIR}.
> > >  #
> > 
> > I strongly disagree actually. Setting subdir in SRC_URI does not
> > change
> > the value of S. What happens is what the comment says, its unpacked
> > to
> > ${WORKDIR}/foo-1.0, or ${WORKDIR}. The value of S remains at
> > whatever
> > its set to.
> 
>   so if one inherits bin_package and uses a "subdir" option, what is
> installed (via tar) is the entire subdir directory structure, as in
> 
>   foo-1.0/*

That sounds more confusing.

The source component of SRC_URI that has subdir set against it is
extracted to ${WORKDIR}/<subdir> rather than ${WORKDIR}/. Nothing more,
nothing less.

> unless the recipe explicitly sets S to match it, is that it? that
> might be worth noting in the comments, then.

S has nothing to do with this so stop trying to include it.

Cheers,

Richard