[oe] DEPLOY_DIR / packaged staging / persistent toolchains

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Hi folks,

I just stumbled over something that surprises me. I have set DEPLOY_DIR 
outside TMP for a while (which works fine). Now when I remove the TMPDIR to 
start a new build from scratch, I can no longer build anything. Apparantly OE 
thinks I do no longer need a toolchain, since it does not attempt to built 
one. I need to remove the whole DEPLOY_DIR to be able to do any builds again.

Wasn't the idea of packaged staging to be able to keep core packages and the 
toolchain intact when removing TMPDIR? If I understodd this wrong, how can I 
do something like that these days? Would it be sufficient to set CROSS_DIR 
outside TMPDIR?

Cheers,

Mickey.