core/pkg-generic: allow packages to exclude files when extracting

Currently, packages that need to exclude parts of the archives when
extracting (e.g. to gain space), like gcc or toolchain-external, have to
provide custom extract commands, just for the sake of adding a bunch of
--exclude directives when calling tar.

Add a new variable that packages may set, to provide a space-separated
list of patterns to exclude.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index 9d6401ff02..a7143e4284 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -314,6 +314,10 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
   that have more than one leading component to strip, set this
   variable with the value to be passed to tar. Default: 1.
 
+* +LIBFOO_EXCLUDES+ is a space-separated list of patterns to exclude
+  when extracting the archive. Each item from that list is passed as
+  a tar's +--exclude+ option. By default, empty.
+
 * +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies (in terms of package
   name) that are required for the current target package to
   compile. These dependencies are guaranteed to be compiled and