Bug 7636

Summary:	recipetool: basic spec file conversion
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component:	devtools / tool chain	Assignee:	Unassigned <unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	amber.n.elliot, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod, tim.orling
Version:	1.8
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Paul Eggleton 2015-04-21 10:05:09 UTC

It would be useful to be able to extract information from RPM spec files when auto-creating recipes in recipetool.

When implementing this it might be necessary to add a command-line option that lets you specify the spec file to look at in case it is not within the source tree for the application.

It may be possible to re-use parts of the Tizen spec2yocto tool:
https://review.tizen.org/git/?p=scm/bb/tizen.git;a=tree;f=tools

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2017-04-21 03:46:54 UTC

We do now extract name, version, license, summary, and homepage from any spec file we happen to find in an archive, however there other things that we could extract - these would be particularly useful for handling SRPMs (.src.rpm).

Comment 2 Randy MacLeod 2026-07-16 15:11:04 UTC

What we have now is sufficient, as Paul explained. 
Send a patch if you need more.