[oe] [PATCH 0/3] rename packages/ to recipes/ per earlier agreement

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:25:11PM -0700, Theodore A. Roth wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:56:37PM -0500, Mike (mwester) wrote:
> >>
> >> Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >> > Renaming packages/ directory to recipes/, as one of the several structural
> >> > changes, was proposed by Koen[1] and agreed/approved by many. Since Koen
> >> > currently doesn't have time/ability to do the change, and some people are
> >> > too eager to wait any longer, he asked me to do it. Please ack/nack.
> >>
> >> Ack.   But can you please tag the revision immediately preceeding the
> >> commit of this change so we have some easy-to-reference point[*] in the
> >> history?
> >
> > Done. mv-packages-to-recipes-pre and mv-packages-to-recipes-post are the tags
> > applied right before and right after the change.
> >
> 
> Is the packages directory supposed to be empty now? There are still a
> few subdirs left:
> 
> 
> roth at dorkboy:~/dev/OE/openembedded/packages$ ls -1
> automake/
> blueprobe/
> busybox/
> coreutils/
> gnome/
> gpe-gallery/
> pkgconfig/
> pyneo/
> qt4/
> udev/

Those are empty directories (unless you have uncommited changes in them). 
That is because git only keeps track of files, not directories. A simple 
rename of a single directory resulted in thousands of renames of individual 
files. When you did "git pull" all the files were moved, leaving the old 
hierarchy empty. It should be safe to remove by "rm -r packages" - if there 
are still files there, rm will fail. And if you do a fresh "git clone", there 
will be no packages/ directory there.

> I will generate a patch to the usermanual to note the new recipes
> directory.

Thanks for taking care of the documentation.

> I am curious is the old packages will still be kept around
> or if it will be completely removed. If kept, how would it be
> described versus the recipes dir?

Now recipes/ directory name represents its contents. Packages are normally 
generated by running/processing recipes. But they are placed inside DEPLOY_DIR 
and I'm not sure there is any need in packages/ directory in the repository.

-- 
Denys