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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 21:46 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> All,
> 
> This series attempts to address Yocto bug 1246: "Configuration changes could
> be saved to a file the cooker isn't using".
> 
> It's an ugly series and the issue will only present itself if users run the
> UI trough alternative ways. My main issue is that we can't easily track all
> loaded conf files at parseConfigurationFiles time so it feels a little
> brittle.
> 
> Thoughts? Comments?

Likely bitbake should be maintaining a list of files the given parsing
process has included up to a given point. I believe we already have
something along those lines and might just want to expose it...

Cheers,

Richard