[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel: Clean DEPLOYDIR before do_deploy runs

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2016-01-25 10:07 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> If we don't do this, the deploy sstate object contains an every
> increasing number of modules tarballs and kernel images, one per
> execution of "-c deploy -f".
>

Stupid question, since my sstate/deploy foo is weak at times.
Does this mean that only a single set of modules + kernel images
will be in tmp/deploy ? Or is it only sstate that is being
cleaned ?

I sometimes need multiple copies around for debug purposes, so
I'm wondering if that is still possible with this change ?

Bruce

> Cleaning the directory before we start makes things much tidier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index dee6f7d..f37affc 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -511,6 +511,7 @@ kernel_do_deploy() {
>   		ln -sf ${initramfs_base_name}.bin ${initramfs_symlink_name}.bin
>   	fi
>   }
> +do_deploy[cleandirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR}"
>   do_deploy[dirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR} ${B}"
>   do_deploy[prefuncs] += "package_get_auto_pr"
>
>
>