[oe] Use of stamps in the source directory of openembedded-core

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:38:11AM +0200, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Ulf Samuelsson <ulf_samuelsson at telia.com> [111019 10:19]:
> > 2011-10-18 16:35, Khem Raj skrev:
> > > On 10/18/2011 1:18 AM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > >> After I have built openembedded-core, I notice that the source directory
> > >> is loaded with files: *.done.
> 
> > > they indicate successful download of a source tar.
> 
> > Are you sure?
> > It does not look like the whole story to me.
> 
> > I can see that for each source file, there is a *.done file,
> > but there are also a lot of *.done which seems to be related
> > to patches, and the patches are not present in the source directory.
> 
> I can confirm what Ulf is seeing.
> E.g. doing:
> $ ls ../downloads/parallel*
> ../downloads/parallel_build_fix_1.patch.done
> ../downloads/parallel_build_fix_5.patch.done
> ../downloads/parallel_build_fix_2.patch.done
> ../downloads/parallel_build_fix_6.patch.done
> ../downloads/parallel_build_fix_3.patch.done
> ../downloads/parallel-make-fix.patch.done
> ../downloads/parallel_build_fix_4.patch.done
> 
> (../downloads is the source directory in our configuration).
> 
> There seems to be a number of files which only have *.done-file, but not
> any downloaded file.
> 
> > Why are those files created?
> 
> > What happens if two different packages have a patch with the same name?
> 
> Good questions...

answer:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-October/011322.html

> 
> > >> Is this really a good idea?
> 
> > >> I tend to use a common source directory for multiple projects.
> 
> > >> Having stamps in the source directory, means that you let one
> > >> project affect the others.
> 
> -- 
> Anders Darander
> ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB
> 
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