From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linuxplesk15.openhost.net.nz (linuxplesk15.openhost.net.nz [119.47.118.83]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web09.12441.1606839233114169530 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:13:53 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=none, err=permanent DNS error (domain: bluelightning.org, ip: 119.47.118.83, mailfrom: bluelightning@bluelightning.org) Received: from linc.localnet (unknown [151.210.228.105]) by linuxplesk15.openhost.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B1D19A2B5F; Wed, 2 Dec 2020 05:13:46 +1300 (NZDT) Authentication-Results: linuxplesk15.openhost.net.nz; spf=pass (sender IP is 151.210.228.105) smtp.mailfrom=bluelightning@bluelightning.org smtp.helo=linc.localnet Received-SPF: pass (linuxplesk15.openhost.net.nz: connection is authenticated) From: "Paul Eggleton" To: Martin Jansa Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/kernel*: allow disabling symlink creation Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 05:13:46 +1300 Message-ID: <5243521.Sb9uPGUboI@linc> In-Reply-To: References: <3140175.5fSG56mABF@linc> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-PPP-Message-ID: <20201201161346.138873.21811@localhost6.localdomain6> X-PPP-Vhost: softec.co.nz Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Martin (replying all this time) On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:40:36 NZDT you wrote: > Can we use a separate variable controlling this behavior other than > *_LINK_NAME variables being set to empty? > > Then we could easily extend it to stop creating the links also for image > artifacts as well. Well, I didn't call it out explicitly but I was just mirroring the image artifacts behaviour - we set those to "" as well and there are checks there already to make that disable the symlink in that case. Paul