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From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: script to remove orphaned files
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:23:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8E9653.2020601@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimkhhnmDTWH3=Vx5hVN=Hpy5WXpnUX-E5QfRobb@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/13/2010 04:42 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
> <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> As I don't really see progress on this, I am planning to take action
>> in a few days.
>> Since Khem expressed a preference to keep the files accessible, I'm
>> planning not to remove the unneeded patches, but instead move the to
>> the obsolete dir.
>> (alternate could be to move them to a dir called unused in the recipe dir).
>> Removal will be tested by verifying that bitbake -c patch remains
>> working on all dirs where unused files are removed.
>>
>
> sometimes same names patches exist in different dirs and if you remove
> one then it will start picking the other one
> silently so make sure such cases are not there. In general I am wary
> of mass changes which could creep in some bugs like that
> Ideally I would suggest that you look at each and every change before its final.

I agree with Khem. please do this a directory of recipes at a time.

Philip

>
>> Frans.
>>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-23 20:19 script to remove orphaned files Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-08-23 21:08 ` Khem Raj
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTi=s9gHBx_uPgiPGhu9b7D10JGytQaxyd-SZ+sfQ@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-24 13:57     ` Chris Larson
2010-08-24 16:55       ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-09-13 20:20         ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-09-13 20:42           ` Khem Raj
2010-09-13 21:15             ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-09-13 21:23             ` Philip Balister [this message]
2010-09-16 20:56               ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-09-16 21:36                 ` Tom Rini
2010-09-17  6:14                   ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-09-17 15:19                     ` Tom Rini
2010-09-17 17:03                       ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-09-17 17:04                         ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-10-11 20:49                           ` Frans Meulenbroeks

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