[OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: point PERSISTENT_DIR outside TMPDIR

[Koen Kooi]

Op 4 mrt 2011, om 15:01 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 11:40 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> * sanity check warning user that he still has peristent cache in old location
>> * similar patch was sent to OE, to keep PERSISTENT_DIR location consistent
>>  http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-March/030623.html
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> meta/classes/sanity.bbclass |    8 ++++++++
>> meta/conf/bitbake.conf      |    2 +-
>> meta/conf/sanity.conf       |    1 +
>> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> When I saw this on the OE list, I'd assumed you'd done what Poky had
> done, I've just realised you're moving this file to TOPDIR instead of
> TMPDIR.
> 
> My big concern here is that we really shouldn't be writing to data to
> the conf directory as its not what the user expects.
> 
> I say this knowing the raft of usability problems we've had every time
> we take something outside of TMPDIR as users have the expectation that
> deleting tmp wipes out all stored state and rebuilds. Having this file
> hidden in the conf directory breaks that expectation. Note there are
> only two things we place outside of TMPDIR, downloads and sstate data.

And pseudodone! That one nearly always trips me up :)