[OE-core] migrating simple tarballs over to OE recipes?

[Burton, Ross]

On 23 November 2016 at 10:42, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>   colleague has a pile of tarballs that were used to customize an x86
> centos system, wants to move all that to OE with as little fuss as
> possible, i guess the simplest way is to just create recipes that have
> the same tarball in the files/ directory, and write a trivial
> do_install() task that untars it into the root fs, yes?
>

Pretty much, yeah.

If you've a large pile and they're all effectively the same then a little
class can automate it even more.

Ross
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