From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtpauth23.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.47]) by linuxtogo.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NN6RE-00044i-0i for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:14:20 +0100 Received: (qmail 9372 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2009 15:05:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (209.242.7.187) by smtpauth23.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.47) with ESMTP; 22 Dec 2009 15:05:42 -0000 Message-ID: <4B30E03B.1040500@mwester.net> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:05:31 -0600 From: Mike Westerhof User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.202.165.47 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mike@mwester.net X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: why rootfs directory in temp is empty X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:14:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Guo Hongruan wrote: > Hi guys, > Today, I build an base-image using OE. And I want to check the content > of rootfs, but I found the directory rootfs in building directory is > empty. I remember there was the ontent of the target root filesystem. > Why have to remove them? Does it means the rootfs directory is unuseful? > > Thanks a lot! > Add IMAGE_KEEPROOTFS = "1" to your local.conf file. I'm not sure why the change was made to clean it out every build, though. -Mike (mwester)