[Openembedded-architecture] RFC: RM_OLD_IMAGE as default behaviour

[Burton, Ross]

On 12 October 2016 at 14:21, Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock at linux.intel.com>
wrote:

> Do folks have strong opinions on whether we should revert to the
> previous behaviour of not removing images (also sdk's and toolchains)
> when deploying a new version, or whether we should keep the new
> behaviour, document it and remove the RM_OLD_IMAGE variable? Or perhaps
> something else entirely?
>

Personally not filling disks with numerous images that are identical unless
you can remember timestamps is a good thing.  If the user is doing testing
that involves preserving and comparing images they can copy them out of the
deploy directory.

Ross
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