[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] rm_work.bbclass: inhibit rm_work per recipe

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 13 March 2013 15:01:33 Qi.Chen at windriver.com wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> 
> Use RM_WORK_WHITELIST to inhibit rm_work per recipe. In this way,
> one can use rm_work for the most of the recipes but still keep the
> work area for the recipe(s) one is working on.
> 
> As an example, the following settings in local.conf will inhibit
> rm_work for icu-native, icu and busybox.
>     INHERIT += "rm_work"
>     RM_WORK_WHITELIST += "icu-native icu busybox"
> 
> If we comment out the RM_WORK_WHITELIST line and do a rebuild, the
> working area of these recipes will be cleaned up.

This is a great feature, but I just looked at it and realised that the term 
"whitelist" isn't really correct - this is more of a blacklist.

The question is does it matter? If so we should probably change it now before 
it becomes too hard to change...

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre