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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 10:47 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 2016-01-25 10:07 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > If we don't do this, the deploy sstate object contains an every
> > increasing number of modules tarballs and kernel images, one per
> > execution of "-c deploy -f".
> > 
> 
> Stupid question, since my sstate/deploy foo is weak at times.
> Does this mean that only a single set of modules + kernel images
> will be in tmp/deploy ? Or is it only sstate that is being
> cleaned ?

One side effect is that it will remove the older copies. The older
copies were being built into each new sstate object which was growing
huge.

> I sometimes need multiple copies around for debug purposes, so
> I'm wondering if that is still possible with this change ?

You'd need to archive them before running another build since this
effectively cleans up the older copies now. This is due to the system
removing the old sstate "object", then installing a new one to replace
it. You can't keep the old ones around easily as they're named to
conflict (and hence replace each other).

Cheers,

Richard