[OE-core] Configurable host name

[Burton, Ross]

On 8 August 2012 14:36, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> To clarify, changing a global variable doesn't cause everything to
> rebuild. As was pointed out, it ends up in all the metadata for all
> the recipes, but that doesn't mean it ends up in the task checksums.
> The metadata checksumming tracks variable dependencies, and will only
> rebuild the tasks which use the variable, directly or indirectly. Now,
> *exported* variables are a rather different beast, but that's not what
> we're talking about here.

Ah, the checksuming isn't as aggressive as I suspected.  Thanks.

Ross