From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Giovanni Foiani <fnognn@unife.it>
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Delete unused hob images
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:42:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <103362898.T6h1MoqcIn@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANsUPaMnm2UdcbmdHkQoRD3sgvG+bkOqezMopS8DcuoK=31B2A@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 30 July 2012 15:18:37 Giovanni Foiani wrote:
> I read this section in Poky Reference manual:
>
> *A.2.13. build/tmp/deploy/images/*
> *
> *
> *This directory receives complete filesystem images. If you want to flash
> the resulting image from a build onto a device, look here for the image.*
> *
> *
> *Note, you should not remove any files from this directory by hand in an
> attempt to rebuild an image. If you want to clean out the cache, re-run the
> build using the following BitBake command: *
> * $ bitbake -c cleanall <target>*
>
> I built many images using hob and in my *build/tmp/deploy/images/ *folder
> there are a lot of rootfs images (like
> hob-image-imx53qsb-<timestamp>.rootfs.ext3 etc..) and I want to remove the
> unused ones to free some space..
>
> I tried tp run:
>
> *bitbake -c cleanall * hob-image-imx53qsb-<timestamp>
>
> but I got:
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'hob-image-imx53qsb-<timestamp>'
I'm not sure where this came from originally, but it is not correct. I'll talk
to Scott R about fixing this part of the manual.
> Can I safely remove these files by hand?
The hob-image-*, yes. In fact any actual image files in deploy/images are OK to
delete (excluding *zImage*, *uImage*, etc. - those are kernels). All the
warnings are trying to prevent is people deleting the entire contents of
deploy/images and then wondering why the kernel, bootloader etc. that get
produced as part of the process of building an image but are not part of the
image itself aren't re-created when they build the image again afterwards.
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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2012-07-30 13:18 Delete unused hob images Giovanni Foiani
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2012-07-30 15:09 ` Giovanni Foiani
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