[OE-core] How to find out why shared sstate is not being used for a recipe

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 07:25:08AM +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 05/29/2014 01:12 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 13:46 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>          On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Mike Looijmans
> >>          <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
> >>          > I have a deja-vu feeling about this question.
> >>          >
> >>          > I have this recipe:
> >>          >
> >>          >
> >>          https://github.com/topic-embedded-products/meta-topic/blob/master/recipes-bsp/fpga/fpga-image-miami.bb
> >>          >
> >>          > Which includes this one:
> >>          >
> >>          https://github.com/topic-embedded-products/meta-topic/blob/master/recipes-bsp/fpga/fpga-image.inc
> >>          >
> >>          > I have a build server that exports its sstate-cache
> >>          directory through HTTP,
> >>          > and a local host that attempts to use that sstate-cache.
> >>          This works fine,
> >>          > except for the recipe above. Building this recipe takes
> >>          about 1 hour, so i
> >>          > really really really want to share that state at any cost.
> >>          As you can see,
> >>          > I've done a big shotgun blast of "vardepdsexclude" to get
> >>          the recipe to be
> >>          > as common as possible. Still any host wants to build its own
> >>          version.
> >>          >
> >>          > How can I diagnose the REASON that my machine thinks it
> >>          isn't building the
> >>          > exact same thing as the build server?
> >>
> >>
> >>          see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Enable_sstate_cache
> >>          towards the end it talks about verifying sstate sigs
> >>
> >>
> >> If the sstate is local at least, you can use bitbake -S printdiff
> >> <target>. There's also bitbake-whatchanged, but the bitbake one is
> >> superior.
> 
> It's on two different machines, so I think that does not qualify as "local".
> 
> > Worst case, you can pull the siginfo files from one build and the
> > siginfo files from the sstate mirror and then see which ones are
> > different, then run bitbake-diffsigs X Y to compare the two files.
> 
> How do I find what to pull? I have (ssh) access to both machines. The 
> sstate-cache dir contains a bunch of two-digit directories and a gazillion files.
> 
> I could just copy the whole thing to one machine, there's gigabit between 
> them, but then what do I do with these files?

You can also use openembedded-core/scripts/sstate-diff-machines.sh
script to create just .sigdata files on both machines and then copy just
this sstate-diff directory, see header of that script for very short
readme.

> > bitbake -S just tries to automate that process if it can.
> >
> 
> bitbake -S usually crashes here.

Are you using latest bitbake? There was fix for that in newer bitbake already/

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> 
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