[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 09/11] lib/bb/siggen: add collapsed mode to compare_sigfiles()

[Patrick Ohly]

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 09:52 +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> If we just want to drill down to the actual differences then we don't
> need to see certain things in the output, e.g. basehash changing or the
> signature of dependent tasks. This will be used for comparing signatures
> within buildhistory-diff in OE-Core; the default mode as used by
> bitbake-diffsigs and bitbake -S printdiff remains unchanged for the
> moment.

This sounds interesting. The bitbake-diffsigs output I got for the
yocto-compat-layer had such useless "basehash changed" comments. Should
we add a mode parameter to bitbake-diffsigs that allows choosing this
collapsed mode?

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