[oe] Has the file:// behavior changed in SRC_URI

[Philip Balister]

On 08/24/2010 10:37 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Philip Balister<philip at balister.org>wrote:
>
>> I know I used to be able to use a local directory with kernel source like
>> this:
>>
>> SRC_URI = "file:///home/balister/kernel_source"
>>
>> but now all that is copied to ${WORK} is an empty directory. This is with
>> bitbake 1.10.0.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Should work, if it doesn't its a bug in the metadata.  Are you using
> relatively recent OE, or a split off tree?  There was a fix that went into
> OE for do_unpack to obey either the 'path' *or* 'host' url components for
> file: uris, because which it goes in was changed in bitbake.

This is a recent metadata pull and the 1.10.0 tarball for bitbake.

Philip