[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] classes/sanity: fix handling of bblayers.conf updating

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 23:10 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:16:51PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > Fix the fairly long-standing problem of treating a newer bblayers.conf
> > in the same manner as an older one (reporting that it had been updated
> > even if nothing was done). The recent work to do a reparse without
> > having to manually re-run bitbake turned this from an annoyance into an
> > endless loop, so it had to be fixed.
> 
> Is this endless loop, bitbake hanging forever while parsing or was it
> showing something or failing soon with endless loop detected by python?

You'd see nothing at all, you'd run "bitbake X" and it would just sit
there indefinitely in a loop.

It could be triggered by including meta-yocto but not setting
DISTRO=poky* in a build dir where DISTRO=poky* has previously been used.

Cheers,

Richard