Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/kernel*: allow disabling symlink creation

2020-12-01 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday, 2 December 2020 05:22:43 NZDT Martin Jansa wrote: > I see, I was just worried that this case will block me pushing the last bit > of [YOCTO #12937] which changes symlinks to hardlinks: > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=jansa/artifact > s > > Which makes

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/kernel*: allow disabling symlink creation

2020-12-01 Thread Martin Jansa
Hi Paul, I see, I was just worried that this case will block me pushing the last bit of [YOCTO #12937] which changes symlinks to hardlinks: https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=jansa/artifacts Which makes the use case you're fixing worse (as even less systems will correct

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/kernel*: allow disabling symlink creation

2020-12-01 Thread Paul Eggleton
Hi Martin (replying all this time) On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:40:36 NZDT you wrote: > Can we use a separate variable controlling this behavior other than > *_LINK_NAME variables being set to empty? > > Then we could easily extend it to stop creating the links also for image > artifacts as wel

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/kernel*: allow disabling symlink creation

2020-11-30 Thread Martin Jansa
Can we use a separate variable controlling this behavior other than *_LINK_NAME variables being set to empty? Then we could easily extend it to stop creating the links also for image artifacts as well. On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 7:55 PM Paul Eggleton < bluelightn...@bluelightning.org> wrote: > On T

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/kernel*: allow disabling symlink creation

2020-11-26 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Thursday, 26 November 2020 14:01:47 NZDT Paul Eggleton wrote: > From: Paul Eggleton > > Allow setting any of the *_LINK_NAME variables to empty string in order > to disable creating symlinks. This is particularly useful for situations > where symlinks in DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE will be treated extern

[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/kernel*: allow disabling symlink creation

2020-11-25 Thread Paul Eggleton
From: Paul Eggleton Allow setting any of the *_LINK_NAME variables to empty string in order to disable creating symlinks. This is particularly useful for situations where symlinks in DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE will be treated externally as duplicates of the linked files (in which case you would probably se