[oe] packaged-staging not working properly

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 19-03-09 22:58, Matthieu Poullet wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to use the packaged-staging capability of OE.
>> I'm building the console-image for the BB using the dev branch.
>
>> DEPLOY_DIR_PSTAGE = "${OE_HOME}/archives"
>
> Here you save *only* the pstage packages
>
>> touch: cannot touch `/home/mpoullet/oe/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/Packages':
>> No such file or directory
>
> And here it wants to use something from deploy outside of PSTAGE.

That doesn't make any sense.  Packages should be created when needed
in the image/rootfs creation process.

> This intented behaviour, you need to save the complete DEPLOY_DIR if you
> want packaged-staging to work as you expect.

I've been doing builds saving only the pstage packages repeatedly for
the past week.  I have hit the problem he's hit, but I can't repro it
anymore.  Builds are working fine, even images.
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