[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] lib/bb: Add BB_SIGNATURE_LOCAL_DIRS_EXCLUDE to speed-up taskhash on directories

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bitbake-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org <bitbake-devel-
> bounces at lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of Khem Raj
> Sent: den 14 november 2019 03:55
> To: Aníbal Limón <anibal.limon at linaro.org>
> Cc: bitbake-devel <bitbake-devel at lists.openembedded.org>
> Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] lib/bb: Add
> BB_SIGNATURE_LOCAL_DIRS_EXCLUDE to speed-up taskhash on directories
> 
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:23 PM Aníbal Limón <anibal.limon at linaro.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > The new BB_SIGNATURE_LOCAL_DIRS_EXCLUDE allows you to specify a list
> > of directories to exclude when making taskhash, our specific case
> > is using SRC_URI that points local VCS directory.
> >
> > In OE-Core this variable could be set by default to:
> >
> > BB_SIGNATURE_LOCAL_DIRS_EXCLUDE = ".cvs .git .svn"

That should be:

BB_SIGNATURE_LOCAL_DIRS_EXCLUDE = "CVS .git .svn"

> I like the approach.  perhaps a sane default would be nice.

//Peter