[oe] script to remove orphaned files

[Philip Balister]

On 09/13/2010 04:42 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
> <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> As I don't really see progress on this, I am planning to take action
>> in a few days.
>> Since Khem expressed a preference to keep the files accessible, I'm
>> planning not to remove the unneeded patches, but instead move the to
>> the obsolete dir.
>> (alternate could be to move them to a dir called unused in the recipe dir).
>> Removal will be tested by verifying that bitbake -c patch remains
>> working on all dirs where unused files are removed.
>>
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> sometimes same names patches exist in different dirs and if you remove
> one then it will start picking the other one
> silently so make sure such cases are not there. In general I am wary
> of mass changes which could creep in some bugs like that
> Ideally I would suggest that you look at each and every change before its final.

I agree with Khem. please do this a directory of recipes at a time.

Philip

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>> Frans.
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