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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 22:13 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Is there a way to have a task, like fetchall, which checks for
> non-referenced metadata files? This would help to avoid this to
> happen
> in future.

Its a nice idea, the complexity is we have patches which can be native
specific, libc specific, machine specific and so on.

I guess if there were some bitbake API to pull out 'all possible
overrides', we might be able to come up with a definitive list and do
some checks based on that. Its not a simple problem and its also not a 
top priority issue right now with available resources. Might be an idea
to open an enhancement bug for it though?

Cheers,

Richard