On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:15 PM Enrico Jörns <e...@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2020, 19:02 -0700 schrieb Khem Raj:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:36 AM Jacob Kroon <jacob.kr...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 5/27/20 4:31 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > > Variable DEPLOY_DIR_TOOLS was introduced in 2007:
> > > >
> > > > commit f751a20152c651a33f08ceda0502fa1d4f11c005
> > > > Author: Richard Purdie <rich...@openedhand.com>
> > > > Date: Wed Aug 8 21:02:39 2007 +0000
> > > >
> > > > bitbake.conf: Sync with OE.dev
> > > >
> > > > apparently never used so get rid of it.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
> > > >
> > >
> > > meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/dfu-util/dfu-util-
> > > native_0.9.bb:do_deploy[sstate-outputdirs]
> > > = "${DEPLOY_DIR_TOOLS}"
>
> this was removed now in meta-oe commit
> af3fc04cfb64d9f229be26f47b4dec892ff919dc ("dfu-util-native: Remove
> DEPLOY_DIR_TOOLS from sstate-outputdirs") apparantely.
>
> However, I do not get the argumentation for that:
>
> > In commit 1ef92d2423d6d6546e4f0585478540212b26f3a0 deploying the native
> > tool was changed to use DEPLOYDIR, so setting DEPLOY_DIR_TOOLS for
> > sstate-outputdir
> > dependency should have been changed as well.
>
> Setting do_deploy[sstate-outputdirs] to something different than its default
> appears to be valid for me and has nothing to do with DEPLOYDIR, which is
> only the sstate intermediate directory name.
> And the result of this is, that the tool now lands in DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE
> instead.
>
>
> My motivation of questioning is, that we have in our RAUC recipe a similar
> usage:
>
> https://github.com/rauc/meta-rauc/blob/master/recipes-core/rauc/rauc-native_1.3.bb#L5
>
> The idea behind that was that one might give some convenience to use the tool
> manually to manipulate update bundles, re-sign them, obtain meta information,
> etc.
>
> What is the now suggested way of placing these kind of binaries? Simply in
> DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGES as the above-mentioned commit does (silently)?
> Or is there maybe still some motivation to keep DEPLOY_DIR_TOOLS?
>
Just use DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGES
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Enrico
>
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