Bug 4922 - There is no clean option for bitbake or a separate util
Summary: There is no clean option for bitbake or a separate util
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: BitBake
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: bitbake (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Low enhancement
Target Milestone: Future
Assignee: Richard Purdie
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Reported: 2013-07-26 07:54 UTC by Laszlo Papp
Modified: 2016-04-13 15:22 UTC (History)
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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.