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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Burton, Ross wrote:

>
> 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.

  already going down that road, just wanted to make sure i hadn't
overlooked something obvious.

rday

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