[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/1] bitbake: enable cleanup of WORKDIR

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 08:33 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Kang Kai <kai.kang at windriver.com> wrote:
> > [Yocto 1561]
> > Add a command line option for bitbake to enable cleanup of WORKDIR.
> > It checks every package build directories under WORKDIR then parse
> > the directory name to get package name and version. If the version
> > is not the package prefer version then delete the directory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kang Kai <kai.kang at windriver.com>
> > ---
> >  bitbake/bin/bitbake       |    4 +++
> >  bitbake/lib/bb/command.py |    5 +++
> >  bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py  |   63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> This is wrong on multiple levels. bitbake (other than some hacky stuff
> in the fetcher that needs to die) has *zero* knowledge of the use of
> WORKDIR today, that's entirely metadata implementation.

Totally agreed. I saw a comment earlier today in the bugzilla about this
and made the same comment even before I saw this patch...

Cheers,

Richard