[OE-core] PRServer's problem

[Robert Yang]

Hi Joshua,

Thanks, I read packagefeed-stability.bbclass just now. If
we can change PRserver's checksum to consider RDEPENDS only
(or make it optional) I will run a testing on that script.

// Robert

On 05/18/2016 03:34 PM, Joshua G Lock wrote:
> 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
>