2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/npm.bbclass b/meta/classes/npm.bbclass
index b5db99d2b9..33ff5e3f45 100644
--- a/meta/classes/npm.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/npm.bbclass
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 DEPENDS_prepend = "nodejs-native "
 S = "${WORKDIR}/npmpkg"
 
+NPM_INSTALLDIR = "${D}${libdir}/node_modules/${PN}"
+
 npm_do_compile() {
         # changing the home directory to the working directory, the .npmrc will
         # be created in this directory
@@ -14,8 +16,8 @@ npm_do_compile() {
 }
 
 npm_do_install() {
-        mkdir -p ${D}${libdir}/node_modules/${PN}/
-        cp -a ${S}/* ${D}${libdir}/node_modules/${PN}/ --no-preserve=ownership
+        mkdir -p ${NPM_INSTALLDIR}/
+        cp -a ${S}/* ${NPM_INSTALLDIR}/ --no-preserve=ownership
 }
 
 python populate_packages_prepend () {
diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index 7600a8fa1f..9ac2ad57a8 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -238,6 +238,17 @@ def add(args, config, basepath, workspace):
             f.write('    rm -f ${D}/singletask.lock\n')
             f.write('}\n')
 
+        if bb.data.inherits_class('npm', rd):
+            f.write('do_install_append() {\n')
+            f.write('    # Remove files added to source dir by devtool/externalsrc\n')
+            f.write('    rm -f ${NPM_INSTALLDIR}/singletask.lock\n')
+            f.write('    rm -rf ${NPM_INSTALLDIR}/.git\n')
+            f.write('    rm -rf ${NPM_INSTALLDIR}/oe-local-files\n')
+            f.write('    for symlink in ${EXTERNALSRC_SYMLINKS} ; do\n')
+            f.write('        rm -f ${NPM_INSTALLDIR}/${symlink%%:*}\n')
+            f.write('    done\n')
+            f.write('}\n')
+
     _add_md5(config, recipename, appendfile)
 
     logger.info('Recipe %s has been automatically created; further editing may be required to make it fully functional' % recipefile)