Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitbake.conf: include machine name in DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 09:26 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> This allows a clean seperation between all image outputs and making it
> possible to have convinience symlinks to make it ready to deploy. And
> while it isn't a valid reason, it must be mentioned: BSP layers which
> do use convenience symlinks already don't step on files owned by
> others anymore.
>
> I assumed this was the default behaviour in OE-classic, but as it
> turns out every DISTRO set it to deploy/images/$MACHINE on its own.
> 
> Code inspections shows that the all references to the image deploy dir
> in classes and scripts in OE-core do the right thing and parse the
> DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
> ---
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

I'm pretty sure someone proposed something like this (relocating output)
just before danny. Changing something like this just before release is a
*really* bad idea. It breaks the docs and the assumptions the
autobuilder and several scripts (e.g. runqemu and the qemuimage testing)
make about where output ends up.

So as I said last time, if we want to do something like this, lets do it
at the start of development of a release, not the end.

Cheers,

Richard