[OE-core] Custom tasks not running when dependency changes version

[Daniel Lazzari]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 8:26 AM
> To: Daniel Lazzari
> Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Custom tasks not running when dependency changes
> version
> 
> On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 01:14 +0000, Daniel Lazzari wrote:
> > I've got a weird issue that I just can't seem to figure out and need some
> help on. In our custom layer we have a bbclass that has 2 custom tasks, like
> so:
> >
> > addtask complete_metadata after do_package before do_package_write
> > addtask create_other_package after do_package_write before do_build
> >
> > Now this is inherited by a recipe B which depends on recipe A. If I build a
> rootfs image, then change the version (PV) on recipe A, then build the rootfs
> image again, recipe A rebuilds, then recipe B rebuilds, but it rebuilds without
> running my custom tasks. There's probably some task flag that I need to set
> to make this work, but I can't figure out what it is. Any help is appreciated, as
> always.
> >
> > BTW, I'm all the way back on the denzil branch in case that matters.
> 
> We have recently found a cache issue in bitbake with regard to addtask
> handling. The fix is now in master:
> 
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=6db202532122b213ae6
> cfce9a49ac9fad2db20f5
> 
> You can workaround this by removing tmp/cache/ to ensure bitbake
> correctly reparses things when it should. It may be the problem you're
> seeing, it may not but its worth a try...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

This worked perfectly. Thank you so much!