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

[Ulf Magnusson]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> 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

bin_package.bbclass might be useful as well, especially if the files
are already arranged like in the rootfs inside the tarballs.

Cheers,
Ulf