Bug 3675 - inhibit rm_work per recipe
Summary: inhibit rm_work per recipe
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Low enhancement
Target Milestone: 1.4
Assignee: Chen Qi
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Reported: 2013-01-04 10:52 UTC by Frans Meulenbroeks
Modified: 2013-03-19 14:49 UTC (History)
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Type of Regression: Unknown (Hard to categorize)
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Description Frans Meulenbroeks 2013-01-04 10:52:37 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Frans Meulenbroeks

        

        
        

        
          2013-01-04 10:57:33 UTC
        

      






Sorry, has some problem witth the gui and hit submit prematurely.

Here is the description

It would be convenient if, when using rm_work one could specify in e.g. local.conf for which recipes this should not apply.
That way one can use rm_work for most of the recipes but keep the work area for the recipe(s) one is working on.

A way to achieve that could be to say in e.g. local.conf:
NO_RM_WORK_squashfs-tools = "1"
or something like that.

Of course another way to whitelist recipes for which rm_work is not desired is also fine.

On a related note: probably rm_work should also not function if a user has made manual changes in the work area (e.g. when running a devshell

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Chen Qi

        

        
        

        
          2013-03-12 08:50:35 UTC
        

      






I think this feature might be useful.
And at the first thought, using a white list seems simpler.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Chen Qi

        

        
        

        
          2013-03-19 07:20:32 UTC
        

      






merged into poky/master: 83409910dd3a31589ca9ea4172a70f0bcd877d8f

http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=6c930c3c06f2e698540626c87bd7f7f571df35ef

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Stefan Stanacar

        

        
        

        
          2013-03-19 14:49:40 UTC
        

      






Verified / commit 410d1e049a1933c44b29416f3ac833ed001f8248