[OE-core] bitbake -c clean <package> fails

[Andrei Gherzan]

On 02/08/2012 11:21 AM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> On 2012-02-07 23:40, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> Clean it's just a "clean". As in "make clean". So after a clean
>>>> you will typically have configure, compile etc.
>>>> "cleanall" = remove unpacked + remove source. So after a clean you
>>>> will tipically have fetch.
>>> I have tried clean, cleansstate and cleanall.
>>> All of them remove the source directory.
>> if you are talking about ${S} then yes but relevant content in 
>> ${DL_DIR} are only removed
>> with cleanall
>>
>
> Yes, when I work on the kernel, I do not want to restart from unpack.
> I would like to edit the existing ${S}and then restart a compile.
> Once the compile succeeds, I want to deploy.
> Once the kernel does what it is supposed to, I generate a patch
> which is then added to the recipe.
>
> At that time, I want to cleansstate and rebuild/retest.
> To come around this problem right now, my kernel recipe generates a 
> script
> in ${S}, which will compile the kernel image and then copies it directly
> to my tftp directory. 
Why don't you play along with sstate files? Detele what you need and it 
will be forced to re<stage>.

@g