fetchers: Use tar --exclude pattern to remove SCM files

This option will exclude the SCM metadata from tar files.

Tested with gcc where svn tar which used to be 156M for gcc 4.5
is now 77M

(Bitbake rev: f264cb6d43472525ad787b0887764ea696ec52ba)

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/cvs.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/cvs.py
index 1064b09e11..42d71ba9fe 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/cvs.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/cvs.py
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ class Cvs(Fetch):
         # tar them up to a defined filename
         if 'fullpath' in ud.parm:
             os.chdir(pkgdir)
-            myret = os.system("tar -czf %s %s" % (ud.localpath, localdir))
+            myret = os.system("tar --exclude 'CVS' -czf %s %s" % (ud.localpath, localdir))
         else:
             os.chdir(moddir)
             os.chdir('..')