[oe] RFC: feature request - wrap sources

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Robert,

Friday, December 21, 2007, 12:24:48 PM, you wrote:

> Richard Purdie schrieb:
>> 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}?
> Specifying the directory to be created would be nice. However one of my
> idea was that by using such a mechanism S would be correct.

> Would it be possible to automatically set S to ${WORKDIR}/<anything> if
> unpacksubdir=<anything> is used? If so we could have genericity and
> saving boilerplate code. :)

  Why, instead, S has default value of "${WORKDIR}/${P}", so just fit
unpacksubdir up to that. And that unpacksubdir is yet stuff to implement
AFAIU.

> Regards
> Robert




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