[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/1 V2] bitbake-whatchanged: print what is about to happen

[Robert Yang]

On 08/10/2012 10:28 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 10 August 2012 11:47:38 Robert Yang wrote:
>> Changes of V2:
>>
>> * Fix a typo fn -> 'fn'
>>
>> * Use "bitbake -e" rather than "bitbake -e recipe" to get the BB_STAMPS_DIR
>>
>> * Use "BB_STAMPS_DIR=<path> bitbake -S recipe" to regenerate the stamps
>>
>> * Change the summary format a little, now it looks like:
>>    - (without -v):
>>      === Summary: (3653 changed, 1927 unchanged)
>>      Newly added: 807
>>      PV changed: 48
>>      PR changed: 276
>>      Depends changed: 2522
>>
>>    - (with -v):
>>      === Summary: (3653 changed, 1927 unchanged)
>>      Newly added: 807
>>      Depends changed: 2846
>>
>> // Robert
>>
>> The following changes since commit 2dec760b79bb7e2e79c33c5127fa64685bd86a18:
>>
>>    foomatic: fix perl path for target (2012-08-08 10:06:00 +0100)
>
> So leaving Chris's objections aside for a moment, I applied this and the
> BB_STAMPS_DIR change, and ran the script on my build directory which is out of
> date with respect to the metadata (i.e. metadata has been updated since the
> last build). The output seems to suggest that no changes have been made, which
> is not the case:
>

Thanks Paul, did you re-run the oe-init-build-env, please? Otherwise the
BB_STAMPS_DIR would have no effect since it would not  be in the BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE.

// Robert

> ----------- snip -----------
> $ bitbake-whatchanged core-image-minimal
> Figuring out the BB_STAMPS_DIR ...
> Generating the new stamps ... (need several minutes)
>
> === Summary: (0 changed, 0 unchanged)
> Newly added: 0
> PV changed: 0
> PR changed: 0
> Depends changed: 0
> ----------- snip -----------
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>