[OE-core] [PATCH 2/21] Add directory information to the pkgdata files

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 11:30 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> It's up to the tooling that are using these files to check if the directory 
> exists, if it does not -- then using bitbake -c patch <recipe> will create it. 
> (even in the sstate-cache case.)

I'm not sure whether checking that the directory exists is all that
safe; in the shared-sstate scenario I think it's conceivable that the
directory might exist but contain something else, or be unreadable due
to permissions, or disappear underneath you while you're using it.

And, of course, "bitbake -c patch ..." won't necessarily create the same
${S} that you got from pkgdata in that case, it will create it in your
local TMPDIR.

Also, the subject line for this patch (and several others from the batch
you just sent) is not in the right format.  Please see the guidelines on
the wiki.

p.