[oe] Force clean of dependencies

[Koen Kooi]

On 22-05-09 20:30, Ambrose, Martin wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:18:07, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
>>> I have searched this list and googled but can't find a way
>>> to force a clean of
>>> a package's dependencies.
>>
>> BB_STAMP_POLICY = "whitelist"?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but it doesn't seem to work for me.
> Looking at the mplayer recipe, e.g, the DEPENDS list includes freetype.
> So my hope is that the latter 'ls' command in the following sequence
> would be empty but it  is not.
>
> $ ls work/armv5te-none-linux-gnueabi | grep freetype
> freetype-2.3.6-r0
>
> $ BB_STAMP_POLICY="whitelist" bitbake mplayer -c clean

Is BB_STAMP_POLICY in BB_ENV_*WHITE for you? If not, you need to set it 
in local.conf.
Also, BB_STAMP_POLICY works in the other direction, it will invalidate 
mplayer if you touch freetype.

regards,

Koen