It would be good if the build system were able to import and build SRPM files for compatibility with other systems. This could be in for form of a conversion script or class files which directly interacted with the SRPM/spec metadata.
This may be completed already, need to verify with new archiver
INHERIT += "archive-patched-source" SOURCE_ARCHIVE_PACKAGE_TYPE = "SRPM" http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=6dd4ddf7eacc0b71f046a3086d949830918bc4c3