[yocto] what is the future for package_tar.bbclass?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Jan 20 02:04:54 PST 2015


On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Monday 19 January 2015 22:57:37 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> > The class is broken and unsupported.  I have updated the docs indicating
> > such.
>
> I'm not sure that's true. It's not supported for building images,
> and it never has been. However it can be used for producing tarball
> packages for individual recipes.

  i have no strong feelings either way, i was just repeating an
observation of mine from a while back that the tar packaging seemed to
get precious little attention compared to the three "standard"
packaging formats.

rday

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