[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] providers: We don't depend on previous build results

[Richard Purdie]

Back in history the code did depend on previous build results. This was
bad for determinism and we no longer do that. Update comments to match
the current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/providers.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/providers.py
index ffa532c..8195d62 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/providers.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/providers.py
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ def findBestProvider(pn, cfgData, dataCache, pkg_pn = None, item = None):
 def _filterProviders(providers, item, cfgData, dataCache):
     """
     Take a list of providers and filter/reorder according to the
-    environment variables and previous build results
+    environment variables
     """
     eligible = []
     preferred_versions = {}
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ def _filterProviders(providers, item, cfgData, dataCache):
 def filterProviders(providers, item, cfgData, dataCache):
     """
     Take a list of providers and filter/reorder according to the
-    environment variables and previous build results
+    environment variables
     Takes a "normal" target item
     """
 
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ def filterProviders(providers, item, cfgData, dataCache):
 def filterProvidersRunTime(providers, item, cfgData, dataCache):
     """
     Take a list of providers and filter/reorder according to the
-    environment variables and previous build results
+    environment variables
     Takes a "runtime" target item
     """