[oe] srctree and stamps

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ambrose, Martin <martin at ti.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 20:01:28, Ambrose, Martin wrote:
>
>> I find that using the latest srctree the stamps aren't updated in the same fashion
>> as regular recipes. In the example below I build the srctree recipe (mypackage) and
>> then build an image depending on same. Even though the package is built just prior
>> the image build still processes several steps which seem redundant.
>>
>> I see some special handling of stamps in srctree.bbclass and wonder if this
>> is expected/desired behavior.
>>
>> Thanks for any help/pointers.
>
> First: sorry for the double post -- some transitory problem with our mail server.
>
> I found that the lack of expected stamps resulted in errors when building images
> with srctree recipes as run time dependencies. Since the do_populate_sysroot,
> among others, task stamp was not present it was run again. Various errors
> could occur depending on the nature of the recipe but I often saw
>
> * resolve_conffiles: Existing conffile /home/user/work/oe/arago-tmp/rootfs/my-image/etc/device_table is different from the conffile in the new package.
>
> The following patch to create the missing stamps is my resolution.
> Comments welcome.

This looks right to me.  When it was switched from exec_task to
exec_func to avoid other complications, I guess it was forgotten that
exec_task is what runs make_stamp :)
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Christopher Larson
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Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics