On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Burton, Ross wrote: > >> >> On 23 November 2016 at 10:42, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@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 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
