[OE-core] PRServer's problem

[Joshua G Lock]

Hi Robert,

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 14:09 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> The PRServer bumps PR according to do_package's task hash, that
> causes it bumps *all* packages' PR when recipes like pseudo-native
> and rpm-native is changed. It is a very bad user experience when we
> run "smart/opkg upgrade" on running target, for example, when we
> apply
> a CVE patch to pseudo-native or rpm-native, or do some slight changes
> in their do_compile, "smart/opkg upgrade" will download/install *all*
> the packages since all of the packages' PR are bumped.

Paul began working to address the package feed churn issue some time
back using the tool build-compare from the openSUSE project.

You can find links to various trees and a summary of the progress so
far in this bugzilla entry:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8318

It still needs some more work; most notably I'd like to see some tests
that validates the functionality.

Regards,

Joshua