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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 6 feb. 2012, om 10:04 heeft Andreas Müller het volgende geschreven:

> 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?

No, buildhistory executes at every do_package step, so it will record changes even without PR bumps. Note that OE doesn't sort the RDEPENDS fields and friends, so you might see a diff where there is only a re-ordering.

regards,

Koen

regards,

Koen