On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 07:11 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 3:51 AM Richard Purdie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've gone around in circles on this for a long time. The background
> > isn't obvious at first glance.
> > 
> > "S" represents where our source is. There is code like do_unpack
> > which
> > wants to clean S before rerunning the task. It can't just clean
> > everything in WORKDIR as there is T, recipe-sysroot* and more that
> > need
> > to be left alone (e.g. recipe-sysroot-native may have
> > do_fetch/do_unpack dependencies).
> > 
> > S is usually defined as ${BPN}-${PV} via ${BP}.
> > 
> 
> 
> Maybe disallow workdir to be used as S it’s a rare case anyway. Add a
> QA check and that
> Should help recipes to migrate away 

It isn't that rare, there are 42 in OE-Core alone.

I do think we should probably migrate away from those though.

Cheers,

Richard
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