[oe] [OE-core] Buildhistory, was Re: do rootfs does not create log files

[Andreas Müller]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>
>> Op 5 feb. 2012, om 23:16 heeft Andreas Müller het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is it a bug or a feature that do_rootfs does not create the package
>>> information (packed_files / packages ..) in a deploy sub-folder did I
>>> miss a switch for this?
>>
>> It's this one: http://git.angstrom-distribution.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/meta-angstrom/commit/?id=370a884b2372b7ddd5f0876119b5f28a2b20074f
>>
>> The matching commit it missing, but you can add something like this to your local.conf:
>>
>> INHERIT += "buildhistory"
>> BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT = "1"
>> BUILDHISTORY_DIR = "/data/ssd/OE/buildhistory/"
>>
>> That will create a tree that looks like https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/buildhistory/. It it's missing a feature that you were using in testlab, let us know and Paul or I will try to add it to buildhistory.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Koen
> Thanks for the info - will give buildhistory a test.
>
> Without having experience on buildhistory I have a question: As you
> might know there was a discussion about the order of packages in
> bitbake.conf [1]. I have no idea of the workflow for this issue:
>
> 1. Enable buildhistory as said above
> 2. Build from scratch
> 3. change the PACKAGES order in bitbake.conf
> 4. ??
>
> If I just rebuild without any PR-bumps I assume buildhistory can do
> nothing for me. Correct?
>
> Andreas
>
[1] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-January/016916.html