archiver.bbclass: what is the purpose of create_diff_gz?

Hi All,

In it's current state, the source archiver creates a diff.gz file containing everything found in 'S'. I am wondering if this was really the intended behavior, as 'S' usually contains things like object and binary files. If anything, I would expect that this file should represent all changes made to the original sources.

Thanks,
Kevin

I was wondering about that too. It doesn't seem particularly useful today. I'd think after do_patch would be best (and change recipes to do their general source modifications before then, or via pre/postfuncs).

Christopher Larson