base.bbclass: Wipe install directory before running install to make rebuilding packages safer (from poky)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/classes/base.bbclass b/classes/base.bbclass
index 1a3739f383..304eaecb10 100644
--- a/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -374,6 +374,12 @@ oe_machinstall() {
 	fi
 }
 
+# Remove and re-create ${D} so that is it guaranteed to be empty
+do_install_prepend() {
+        rm -rf ${D}
+        mkdir -p ${D}
+}
+
 addtask listtasks
 do_listtasks[nostamp] = "1"
 python do_listtasks() {