From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNN4S-0002gx-60 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:59:56 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NNN2b-0000Iy-Iv for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:57:57 +0100 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:57:57 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:57:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:57:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4B30E03B.1040500@mwester.net> <20091222195157.GB2271@denix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091220 Shredder/3.0.1pre In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org 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: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:59:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22-12-09 23:25, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > 2009/12/22 Denys Dmytriyenko : >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:05:31AM -0600, Mike Westerhof wrote: >>> 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. >> >> To prevent people from using it as an NFS share and having problems. > > Ehm, can you please clarify why this would cause a problem? The nfs server doesn't run inside the do_rootfs fakeroot sessions and hence all the permission will be screwed up. If you can teach OE to respawn the nfs server inside the fakeroot session, you might get away with it :) regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFLMdt+MkyGM64RGpERAjY1AJwPkbebEMCnt2oSjDTXxJLDMJibgQCeKiIR y343rN9hGQCkMzn8Kx6csBQ= =zSNI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----