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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-05-17 09:29, William M.A. Traynor wrote:
> 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, that was the hint I was looking for.

Of course, today the recipe behaves...  At least I'll know what to
do the next time I have problems.

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