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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2016-01-25 10:52 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 10:47 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> One side effect is that it will remove the older copies. The older
> copies were being built into each new sstate object which was growing
> huge.
>
>> I sometimes need multiple copies around for debug purposes, so
>> I'm wondering if that is still possible with this change ?
>
> You'd need to archive them before running another build since this
> effectively cleans up the older copies now. This is due to the system
> removing the old sstate "object", then installing a new one to replace
> it. You can't keep the old ones around easily as they're named to
> conflict (and hence replace each other).

Ack'd. I'll have to remember to copy out what I need! :)

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>