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

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

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