[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/2] bitbake: ensure -f causes dependent tasks to be re-run

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 21 June 2012 13:25:55 Björn Stenberg wrote:
> Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > In any case it appears to me that if we're moving anywhere, we're at least
> > moving in the direction of behaving more like make rather than less like
> > it, would you agree?
> 
> Yes, in terms of which commands are being ran. No, in terms of the resulting
> output.

The resulting output is only different in terms of what the user has changed in 
the sources (if anything) and the sstate checksum. Why do you want it to be 
producing the same checksum for potentially different contents?

> -f intentionally produces different output. I think this will confuse
> people, and that we should therefore be extra careful in informing the
> user.

It intentionally changes the checksum yes, and as Richard said we should 
probably mention this in the help text. I will produce a v2 of this series 
that does that.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre