[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Peter Seebach]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:34:35 -0700
Scott Garman <scott.a.garman at intel.com> wrote:

> This would mean that if someone tried to put multiple rootfs
> directories in the same subdirectory, they could clobber each other's
> pseudo_state data, correct? Putting multiple rootfs directories in
> the same subdir is a common use case already, I don't think we could
> break that.

Good catch!

I didn't realize this was a common use case.

> If you appended the top-level rootfs directory name
> to ../pseudo_state, e.g, ../pseudo_state_<dirname>, that would keep
> the pseudo_state directories separate and make it fairly obvious what
> rootfs they belonged to.

Good idea.

> Also, neither of these schemes would support having $target_sysroot 
> directly under / (though I'm not sure why someone would do that).

Yeah. I don't really like having the pseudo stuff outside the
directory, but I dislike it less than I dislike having it in the
directory. :)

-s
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