is there any value to FILESPATHPKG?

is there any value to FILESPATHPKG?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  not sure where i read this (YP overview manual?), but i recall
something about the FILESPATHPKG variable being deprecated, and i see
its only references are:

$ grep -irw filespathpkg *
meta/classes/utils.bbclass:    filespathpkg = d.getVar("FILESPATHPKG").split(":")
meta/classes/utils.bbclass:        for pkgpath in filespathpkg:
$

so i'll leave it to someone else to decide if it still has value.

rday

Re: [OE-core] is there any value to FILESPATHPKG?

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org <openembedded-
> core@lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
> Sent: den 4 maj 2020 12:14
> To: OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
> Subject: [OE-core] is there any value to FILESPATHPKG?
> 
>   not sure where i read this (YP overview manual?), but i recall
> something about the FILESPATHPKG variable being deprecated, and i see
> its only references are:
> 
> $ grep -irw filespathpkg *
> meta/classes/utils.bbclass:    filespathpkg = d.getVar("FILESPATHPKG").split(":")
> meta/classes/utils.bbclass:        for pkgpath in filespathpkg:
> $
> 
> so i'll leave it to someone else to decide if it still has value.
> 
> rday

A quick grep through the Git logs for Poky and Openembedded 
indicates that the only functions that depend on FILESPATHPKG, 
is_machine_specific() and machine_paths(), have never been used 
since their introduction. So I'd say it should be safe to remove 
them.

//Peter

Re: [OE-core] is there any value to FILESPATHPKG?

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 13:29 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org <openembedded-
> > core@lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
> > Sent: den 4 maj 2020 12:14
> > To: OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
> > Subject: [OE-core] is there any value to FILESPATHPKG?
> > 
> >   not sure where i read this (YP overview manual?), but i recall
> > something about the FILESPATHPKG variable being deprecated, and i
> > see
> > its only references are:
> > 
> > $ grep -irw filespathpkg *
> > meta/classes/utils.bbclass:    filespathpkg =
> > d.getVar("FILESPATHPKG").split(":")
> > meta/classes/utils.bbclass:        for pkgpath in filespathpkg:
> > $
> > 
> > so i'll leave it to someone else to decide if it still has value.
> > 
> > rday
> 
> A quick grep through the Git logs for Poky and Openembedded 
> indicates that the only functions that depend on FILESPATHPKG, 
> is_machine_specific() and machine_paths(), have never been used 
> since their introduction. So I'd say it should be safe to remove 
> them.

Agreed, I started thinking they'd be fine simplified, but I think it
does make most sense to remove them entirely.

Cheers,

Richard