[yocto] Avoid creation of .sdcard images.

Daniel. danielhilst at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 17:45:48 PDT 2015


Well, I'm in home now monday I'll take a look on this, it should have a
way, maybe a little hack is needed, thanks for informing, best regards I
keep in touch
Em 26/06/2015 21:39, "Nikolay Dimitrov" <picmaster at mail.bg> escreveu:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 06/27/2015 03:30 AM, Daniel. wrote:
>
>> What you mean about deployed? They are compiled but doesnt go to
>> tmp/deploy folder?!
>>
>
> Exactly. In my project I also don't use the sdcard image, but I just
> have to leave it because of the previously described behavior.
>
> Guess how I discovered it :D (hint: tried to optimize the build times
> and disk usage).
>
> Best way is to see for yourself. Just edit the file sources/meta-
> yourlayer/conf/machine/yourboard.conf and put something like this:
>
> # Shoot myself in the foot
> #IMAGE_FSTYPES = "tar sdcard"
> IMAGE_FSTYPES = "tar"
>
> ...and give it a try. It may be a good idea to fully clean your build
> space (rm -fr cache sstate-cache tmp) before building, otherwise old
> build products in tmp/deploy can fool you that a build is properly
> done, while it was not.
>
>
>> Im building to imx6 :/
>>
>> Em 26/06/2015 21:25, "Nikolay Dimitrov" <picmaster at mail.bg
>> <mailto:picmaster at mail.bg>> escreveu:
>>
>>     Hi guys,
>>
>>     On 06/26/2015 11:32 PM, Daniel. wrote:
>>
>>         Hmm, this seems cleaner than setting whole IMAGE_FSTYPES, I'll
>> try!
>>
>>         Thank you!
>>
>>         2015-06-26 17:28 GMT-03:00 Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com
>>         <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>
>>         <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>>>:
>>
>>              On 2015-06-26 13:52, Leonardo Sandoval wrote:
>>
>>                  On 06/26/2015 02:45 PM, Daniel. wrote:
>>
>>                      Does any one knows how to avoid the creation of
>> .sdcard
>>                      images? This ones
>>
>>                  The variable controlling the type of output images is
>>                  IMAGE_FSTYPES, so you can redefine it under your
>>         local.conf. To
>>                  see the current content, you can do
>>
>>                  $bitbake -e <your image> | grep IMAGE_FSTYPES
>>
>>
>>              Just add this line to your local.conf
>>                 IMAGE_FSTYPES_remove = "sdcard"
>>
>>
>>
>>                      takes a lot of diskspace and I have to delete it
>>                      periodically, which gives
>>                      headaches about cleaning everything every time. A
>>         have an
>>                      50GB partition
>>                      and from month to month I get out of disk space. :(
>>
>>                      Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>         --
>>         /"Do or do not. There is no try"/
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>>
>>
>>
>>     Removing "sdcard" from IMAGE_FSTYPES will prevent virtual/kernel and
>>     virtual/bootloader from being deployed, and most of the time we need
>>     them, so be warned. At least this is how things work on imx6 builds
>> :D.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Nikolay
>>
>>
> Regards,
> Nikolay
>
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