[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] bitbake.conf: include machine name in DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE

[Koen Kooi]

Op 10 apr. 2013, om 09:44 heeft Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 09:26 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> This allows a clean seperation between all image outputs and making it
>> possible to have convinience symlinks to make it ready to deploy. And
>> while it isn't a valid reason, it must be mentioned: BSP layers which
>> do use convenience symlinks already don't step on files owned by
>> others anymore.
>> 
>> I assumed this was the default behaviour in OE-classic, but as it
>> turns out every DISTRO set it to deploy/images/$MACHINE on its own.
>> 
>> Code inspections shows that the all references to the image deploy dir
>> in classes and scripts in OE-core do the right thing and parse the
>> DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE variable.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
>> ---
>> meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> I'm pretty sure someone proposed something like this (relocating output)
> just before danny. Changing something like this just before release is a
> *really* bad idea. It breaks the docs and the assumptions the
> autobuilder and several scripts (e.g. runqemu and the qemuimage testing)
> make about where output ends up.

It is weird that runqemu gets some vars from bitbake -e, and others from hardcoding them. v2 should address that.

> So as I said last time, if we want to do something like this, lets do it
> at the start of development of a release, not the end.

I sent it to be in time for the start of the new release :) It sure wasn't meant to go into 1.4. 

regards,

Koen