[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/1] command: Add command to invalidate parse cache

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 22:10 +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> If we make a change to the metadata within a tinfoil-using script
> and then attempt to run tasks using build_targets(), the change won't
> get noticed. Add an explicit command that will set the internal flag
> to
> force reloading the cache and thus pick up the changes. This will be
> used in OE by the devtool source extraction rework.
> 
> Part of the fix for [YOCTO #11198].
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/bb/command.py | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Just a quick sanity check. Why won't the change get noticed? Any file
writes should be seen by the inotify code which would invalidate the
cache? This could mean we're not watching some dependency we should be?
or is it that the commands aren't triggering a reparse due to ordering
somehow? I'd like to understand this more before we add this...

Cheers,

Richard