Bug 4922

Summary:	There is no clean option for bitbake or a separate util
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Laszlo Papp <lpapp>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	ionel.badisor, net147, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Laszlo Papp 2013-07-26 07:54:15 UTC

I would like to be able to use a tool or an option for the existing bitbake to clean up the build folder in a more professional way than "rm -r" for the selected folders.

There could be even a two-layer support with something like "full/distclean" which wipes everything away, maybe except the config or even that.

Comment 1 Ionel Badisor 2013-08-30 07:04:31 UTC

+1

Comment 2 Laszlo Papp 2014-04-17 10:45:17 UTC

There is something somewhat relevant existing these days:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-RM_OLD_IMAGE

Comment 3 Richard Purdie 2016-04-13 15:22:56 UTC

Since we have rm_work and RM_OLD_IMAGE we have the start of this functionality. If we need more, we can open specific bugs for those issues but I don't think we need a wrapper for rm.