[yocto] Where should I append Yocto bitbake task to create work folder symlink ?

[Burton, Ross]

On 3 February 2016 at 10:13, Woronicz, Bartosz ( NSN - PL/Wroclaw) <
bartosz.woronicz at nokia.com> wrote:

> Let's say I have my package at
>
>     host-64/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/mypackage/1.2.3-r4/
>
> I would like to have symlink created
>
>     host-64/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/mypackage/latest -> 1.2.3-r4/
>
> each time the new version is fetched and unpacked. How can I achieve that
> ? Which class, task should I append, extend ?
>

One way would be to create a new task that comes after unpack and creates
the symlink.

You may be interested in the rm_old_work class that can remove old work
trees so there's only ever one work tree, and I believe due to how master
does sysroot cleanup there's only ever one version in work/ now.

Ross
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