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/svn.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/svn.py
index 34f8132257..c236e413fd 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/svn.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/svn.py
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ class Svn(Fetch):
         os.chdir(ud.pkgdir)
         # tar them up to a defined filename
         try:
-            runfetchcmd("tar -czf %s %s" % (ud.localpath, ud.module), d)
+            runfetchcmd("tar --exclude '.svn' -czf %s %s" % (ud.localpath, ud.module), d)
         except:
             t, v, tb = sys.exc_info()
             try: