[Openembedded-architecture] Recipe Specific Sysroots

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 18:11 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=rpurdie/wip-rss
> [...]
>> Known issues/Todo:
>> * Once a dependency is installed into a recipe specific sysroot, it
>>   can't be removed. In particular, if you rebuild that dependency
>> (and its sstate checksum changes), it isn't reinstalled.
>
> This is now fixed on the branch and I'm a lot happier with the way the
> code is behaving. It correctly handles various rebuild cases now.
>
> I also found some further bitbake-worker performance issues/tweaks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
I haven't looked into implementation details but appreciate the
efforts on this. Getting DEPENDS right can turn to a random iteration.

One question: You might remember that I still (really) like using
sysroot for quick remote debugging (have created a dirty helper [1]
after gdb's source code pointers moved): Will there be a place with
whole sysroot - maybe set by an option?

[1] https://github.com/schnitzeltony/meta-misc/blob/master/classes/instant-remote.bbclass

Andreas