[OE-core] [RFC][PATCHv2] bitbake.conf: include machine name in DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 28 August 2013 10:29:00 Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05:01AM +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, except runqemu.
>
> Is there some reason why this patch didn't make it into 1.5?

I think it just got missed; looking at the changes made to runqemu I can see a 
couple of concerns (double execution of bitbake -e and one missed change to 
DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE, albeit only in a message). I'm coming up with a revised 
version now.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre