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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 21 June 2012 15:41:40 Björn Stenberg wrote:
> Björn Stenberg wrote:
> > c) A clear information message when using -f, maybe something like "INFO:
> > Tainting the hash to force a rebuild", that alerts the user to the
> > goings-on under the hood.
> 
> Another thing: How will bitbake-diffsigs show a tainted build vs the
> untained version? It would be very nice if that could be shown clearly.

It reports that the taint changed from None to the taint value (or vice 
versa). Right now the taint value is not particularly useful - it's a random 
UUID; however in future it's possible we might set the taint to something non-
random for other purposes. In any case, if a signature is tainted both 
bitbake-diffsigs and bitbake-dumpsig will report it.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre