[oe] [PATCH] image.bbclass: remove tmp/rootfs after image creation unless you set a variable

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:01:56PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 10:10 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> > Set IMAGE_KEEPROOTFS to something other than the empty string to keep
> > tmp/rootfs around after image creation, otherwise it will be removed, as it's
> > not a fully functional filesystem, and causes much confusion among users as a
> > result.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <clarson at mvista.com>
> > ---
> >  classes/image.bbclass |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/classes/image.bbclass b/classes/image.bbclass
> > index f0cc3b3..974e734 100644
> > --- a/classes/image.bbclass
> > +++ b/classes/image.bbclass
> > @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ fakeroot do_rootfs () {
> >  	${IMAGE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND}
> >  	
> >  	${MACHINE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND}
> > +	${@['rm -rf ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}', ''][bool(d.getVar("IMAGE_KEEPROOTFS", 1))]}
> >  }
> >  
> >  do_deploy_to[nostamp] = "1"
> 
> Something I've been thinking about for a while is moving rootfs into
> ${WORKDIR}/. That way you can have concurrent image generation for a
> start and rm_work could be taught to clean it up...

Isn't the other part of that the need to serialize making the package
index files?

-- 
Tom Rini