[yocto] Delete unused hob images

[Giovanni Foiani]

Ok, thanks

Giovanni
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Paul Eggleton <
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Monday 30 July 2012 15:18:37 Giovanni Foiani wrote:
> > I read this section in Poky Reference manual:
> >
> > *A.2.13. build/tmp/deploy/images/*
> > *
> > *
> > *This directory receives complete filesystem images. If you want to flash
> > the resulting image from a build onto a device, look here for the image.*
> > *
> > *
> > *Note, you should not remove any files from this directory by hand in an
> > attempt to rebuild an image. If you want to clean out the cache, re-run
> the
> > build using the following BitBake command: *
> > *     $ bitbake -c cleanall <target>*
> >
> > I built many images using hob and in my *build/tmp/deploy/images/ *folder
> > there are a lot of rootfs images (like
> > hob-image-imx53qsb-<timestamp>.rootfs.ext3 etc..) and I want to remove
> the
> > unused ones to free some space..
> >
> > I tried tp run:
> >
> > *bitbake -c cleanall * hob-image-imx53qsb-<timestamp>
> >
> > but I got:
> > ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'hob-image-imx53qsb-<timestamp>'
>
> I'm not sure where this came from originally, but it is not correct. I'll
> talk
> to Scott R about fixing this part of the manual.
>
> > Can I safely remove these files by hand?
>
> The hob-image-*, yes. In fact any actual image files in deploy/images are
> OK to
> delete (excluding *zImage*, *uImage*, etc. - those are kernels). All the
> warnings are trying to prevent is people deleting the entire contents of
> deploy/images and then wondering why the kernel, bootloader etc. that get
> produced as part of the process of building an image but are not part of
> the
> image itself aren't re-created when they build the image again afterwards.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> --
>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>
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