General OE question

Hi there,

I'm having a question regarding OpenEmbedded.

I've added a MACHINEBUILD variable to get different builds based on what I set it to.

So my openpli distro config:

meta-openpli/conf/distro/openpli.conf

FEED_NAME ?= "${DISTRO_NAME}-${DISTRO_VERSION}/${MACHINEBUILD}"
DISTRO_FEED_URI ?= "http://${DISTRO_HOST}/feeds/${FEED_NAME}"
DISTRO_FEED_PREFIX ?= "${DISTRO_NAME}"

IMAGE_NAME = "${IMAGE_BASENAME}-${DISTRO_VERSION}-${MACHINE}"
# We don't need a link, but a bug in OE makes image creation fail when
# the link name is empty.
IMAGE_LINK_NAME = "${IMAGE_BASENAME}"
CACHE ?= "${TMPDIR}/cache/${LIBC}/${MACHINEBUILD}/${MACHINE}"
DEPLOY_DIR ?= "${TMPDIR}/deploy/${LIBC}"
DEPLOY_DIR_IPK = "${DEPLOY_DIR}/${MACHINEBUILD}/ipk"
DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE = "${DEPLOY_DIR}/images/${MACHINEBUILD}/${MACHINE}"

For example:

MACHINE=dm8000 MACHINEBUILD=gst151 bitbake openpli-enigma2-image

Will build a perfectly working image with gstreamer 1.5.1 for my dm8000.

The resulting image will be present in: build/tmp/deploy/images/gst151/dm8000/

The packages will be available in: build/tmp/deploy/gst151/ipk/

Now when I set MACHINEBUILD to "gstgit" It'll build a perfectly working image using the latest gstreamer master git:

MACHINE=dm8000 MACHINEBUILD=gstgit bitbake openpli-enigma2-image.

The image will be present in: build/tmp/deploy/images/gstgit/dm8000/

And the packages will be available in: build/tmp/deploy/gstgit/ipk/

However the problem is when I switch MACHINEBUILD to "gstgit", the old ipk packages in build/tmp/deploy/gst151/ipk/ will be deleted?

The image remains, but it will remove the ipk packages.

Same thing when I switch MACHINEBUILD back to "gst151", all packages will be placed in build/tmp/deploy/gst151/ipk/ but they'll be removed from: build/tmp/deploy/gstgit/ipk/

So the images remain, but it's like it moves over the ipks.

Is there a way I can stop this from happening?