[OE-core] whatever happened to a proposal for "read-only" sstate?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sat Feb 4 17:18:49 UTC 2017


On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 06:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   for purposes of teaching, i wanted to check into the feasibility of
> > having students take advantage of a single shared state cache, but
> > still have the option of building whatever source they needed in
> > their
> > own *personal* sstate cache.
> >
> >   i found this reference from 2014:
> >
> > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-August
> > /096486.html
> >
> > but it seems clear nothing became of it; there's certainly no
> > .bbclass
> > file that matches that.
> >
> >   what are the options for setting up something like this? or is that
> > already supported and i'm just not seeing it?
>
> It was never merged as its not really necessary, you can do this
> with existing functionality.
>
> Just point SSTATE_MIRRORS at the common shared directory and
> SSTATE_DIR at the directory you want to be the personal one.

  wait, i just ran across this YP wiki page:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Enable_sstate_cache

so as long as it's accurate, i'll just work off of that.

rday

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