Bug 13449

Summary: Functionality of Unpack parameter 'basepath' broken
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Volker <vposs>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod
Version: 2.7.1   
Target Milestone: 3.4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description Volker 2019-07-23 08:29:22 UTC 
Doc https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.7.1/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#bb-the-unpack
describes a parameter 'basepath'
"...to strip the specified directories from the source path when unpacking..."
--> This functionality seems to be broken.

Checking latest sources I found that this commit
"bitbake: fetch2: fixes copying of file://dir; subdir=foo, bug 6128 and bug 6129"
of Feb. 2016 seems to have removed handling of the respective parameter from source file bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py

A grep in latest sources for 'parm.get(' shows hits for the other options unpack, dos, subdir but not for basepath.

(This open question at stackoverflow seems to address the same topic, while referring to v1.6:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50451961/stripping-base-path-off-the-unpacked-source-tree-with-bitbake-src-uri-file-fe?rq=1)
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2021-04-19 11:24:05 UTC 
Patch sent to update the docs.