[yocto] kernel-devsrc and .kernel-meta

Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfield at windriver.com
Tue Jul 26 06:16:31 PDT 2016


On 2016-07-26 05:15 AM, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've added kernel-devsrc to TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK for the SDK.
> After installing the SDK, <target-path>/usr/src/kernel/ contains a
> .kernel-meta/ directory of size ~18MB. After some rebuilds, and new SDK
> generation/installation, that directory has grown to 512MB.
> Should this directory be dropped from the kernel-devsrc package ?

That's tracking the meta-data that was used to create the
tree .. but since the SDK doesn't actually use that data, it could
in fact be dropped.

Feel free to open a bugzilla (with all the reproducer details) and
it can be dealt with.

Bruce

>
> /Jacob




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