[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] license_image: Don't try to hard link license files

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Fri May 3 05:05:11 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 21:30 +0000, paul at betafive.co.uk wrote:
> From: Paul Barker <paul at betafive.co.uk>
> 
> This change allows us to support the placement of WORKDIR and
> DEPLOY_DIR
> on different devices. As the license files are typically small, the
> increase in disk usage and build time should be negligible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul at betafive.co.uk>
> ---
>  meta/classes/license_image.bbclass | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

We create a lot of hardlinks and its not negligible overall ;-).

I'd prefer we continue to do so where we can. We should probably create
a function similar to lib.oe.path.copyhardlinktree() and use that here
rather than abandon the hardlinks.

Cheers,

Richard





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