[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 1/2] image.bbclass, kernel.bbclass: create warning file about deleting deploydir files

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Tue Aug 23 21:39:41 UTC 2011



Op 23 aug. 2011 om 22:07 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Tuesday 23 August 2011 20:08:08 you wrote:
>> On 08/19/2011 03:27 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> I guess it would, but I'm not sure we really want to be encouraging users
>>> to use -f.
>> 
>> I don't see it as having the same negative conotation as the force
>> options to things like rpm and dpkg. Here it just means "I really want
>> to run this specific task again, even if you already ran it, likely
>> because I know I did something to undo what you just did." :-)
> 
> My concern is that not all tasks are repeatable;

I consider that a bug :)


>  could run into all 
> sorts of trouble using this option under the wrong circumstances and it might 
> be difficult to debug after the fact.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 
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