On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:32:25 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:27:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > not sure how dumb a question this is, but as i was doing a basic OE > > > > > > > > build, i saw the growing number of "nativesdk" rpms piling up under > > > > tmp/deploy/rpm/x86_64_linux, and wanted to examine a couple of them > > > > later, but after the sysroot was (i assume) populated with all of > > > > these rpms, that entire directory was deleted. > > > > > > > > is there a switch to preserve that directory? thanks. > > > > > > oh, wait, i think i found it: > > > SDKIMAGE_FEATURES += "package-management" > > > > > > does that look right? > > > > No, it doesn't. That's for turning on package management database in the > > SDK, which is not quite the same thing. The fact that those rpms are > > disappearing is a separate issue. > > > > Are you using rm_work? > > no. and are you sure you're reading the above correctly? i'm not > saying > > IMAGE_FEATURES += "package-management"
Yep, I understood. > i was reading this: > > https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/120705/ > > but perhaps i'm just misinterpreting what i'm reading. Right - that patch makes the preservation of the package management database (what it refers to as the "packaging data") conditional. That code does nothing with the packages themselves. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core