[oe] DEPLOY_DIR and package_stagefile_shell

[George C. Huntington, III]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:39:45PM -0400, George C. Huntington, III wrote:
> > It appears that if you override DEPLOY_DIR to make the DEPLOY directory
> > outside of TMPDIR, then recipes that call package_stagefile_shell fail.
> the
> > sed magic in package_stagefile_shell assumes that the path will be in
> > TMPDIR.  Should the package_stagefile_shell be fixed, or should the
> recipes
> > that call it with ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE} be changed.  the u-boot.inc and the
> > linux.inc have this problem.
>
> Well, it's an old issue - I first faced it over 3 years ago[1]. I had it
> "fixed" or worked around, by modifying the sed magic. Then it got broken
> again
> and there wasn't any good fixes available since then. That's the way
> packaged
> staging works, as pstage had to be relative to deploy dir, which both
> reside
> in TMPDIR by default.
>
> At one point I even disabled packaged staging in Arago in order to allow
> re-defining DEPLOY_DIR, but later on it got mandated and I just gave in to
> not
> being able to move DEPLOY_DIR outside of TMPDIR. :)
>
> Either way it's a moot point now with oe-core and shared state...
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/19300
>
> --
> Denys
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That kind of sucks for people who have to use the 2011.03-maintenance branch