[oe] RFC: feature request - wrap sources

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:34 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote:
> I have a feature request that should help dealing with those source
> tarballs which do not contain a proper top level directory. The idea is
> to allow to add a parameter 'wrap' to the SRC_URI entry denoting the
> source tarball. If it is present (and 1) the unpacker creates a
> directory named ${P} and unpacks the tarball therein.
> 
> This would make it unneccessary to change S for such packages and
> furthermore the work directory is not cluttered with files and folders
> from inside the source tarball.
> 
> Like it? (Any pointer where such code should be put?)

Would it not be simpler just to specify an attribute like unpacksubdir
which you could set to ${PN}-${PV}?

That way you have a generic and simpler solution?

Cheers,

Richard