[OE-core] Why doesn't my package rebuild

[William M.A. Traynor]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> Sort of as a follow up to my problem of yesterday, I've run into
> a problem - I have a simple recipe which only unpacks a source tarball
> and then installs it - no other steps are listed or required.  The recipe
> also does not have an explicit PR value and I'm not running a PR server.
>
> If I have the package built, then change the tarball and the checksums
> in the recipe itself, it does not get rebuilt :-(  I have to force it
> using cleansstate.
>
> This setup seems to work fine for my other recipes.  I just tried it
> with two nearly identical recipes.  I made similar changes in both
> recipes/files - one was rebuilt, the other not.
>
> How can I diagnose this?  It's a private recipe (no use to anyone but me)
> so I'm not going to send it to the list but I can gladly share it with
> anyone who might be able to help.

Hi Gary,

You can increase the Debug level for your build with bitbake -D.  You
can specify this more than once for additional output, example: -DDD.
This may help you to diagnose what's going on.

>
> Thanks
>
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