[Angstrom-devel] packed staging - how to use (in practise) it with angstrom building

[Koen Kooi]

Michal Panczyk wrote:
> Hi all!
> I was wondering if anyone uses packed-staging here at angstrom ...
> Couple of days ago I saw entry at Marcin's blog about packed-staging
> advantages  (http://blog.haerwu.biz/2008/07/01/packaged-staging-and-what-it-gives/)
> - seems it saves a lot of time for people doing lot of rebuilds.
> Marcin mentions about poky - Koen in comments says that this feature
> was implemented to angstrom long time ago. How to use it with angstrom
> ?

It's on by default in angstrom 2008, so you don't have to do anything to 
use packaged-staging.

>  I would like to move the pstage dir out of oe dir - I made following
> entries in my local.conf:
> TMPDIR = "/home/extra/oe_tmp/"
> DEPLOY_DIR = "/home/extra/deploy"  # To move whole deploy dir out of OE tmpdir
> DEPLOY_DIR_PSTAGE = "/home/extra/build/pstage/" # a copy of entry at
> Marcins blog
>
> The INHERIT += "packaged-staging" is included in the
> angstrom-2008.1.conf that I am using.
>
> After the build the structure looks like :
> # ls  /home/extra/oe_tmp/
> abi_version  cache  checksums.ini  cross  deploy  rootfs  saved_tmpdir
>   staging  stamps  usr  work
> #  ls  /home/extra/oe_tmp/deploy/glibc/
> images  ipk  pstage
>
> So not only the pstage dir is not in the place I wanted but also the
> deploy dir. All the pstage files are in the
> /home/extra/oe_tmp/deploy/{glibc,ulibc}/pstage/  dir.
>
> Anything I am missing ?

classes/packaged-staging.bbclass:73:DEPLOY_DIR_PSTAGE   = 
"${DEPLOY_DIR}/pstage"

That isn't a weak assignment, so it can't be overriden.

> Does anyone else use this feature ?

I always keep pstage where it is and remove staging, stamps and work 
when doing rebuilds.

regards,

Koen