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From: "Peter Kjellerstedt" <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
To: "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] is there any value to FILESPATHPKG?
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 13:29:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9cb896b5db64c9bbb464cd66ec2e344@XBOX03.axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2005040611490.6242@localhost.localdomain>

> -----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


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-04 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04 10:13 is there any value to FILESPATHPKG? Robert P. J. Day
2020-05-04 13:29 ` Peter Kjellerstedt [this message]
2020-05-04 15:53   ` [OE-core] " Richard Purdie

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