[oe] what sources are *not* fetched by a "-c fetchall"?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Aug 20 11:53:26 UTC 2013


On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 12:46 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   currently testing a build for my beaglebone black using the meta-ti
> > layer and, as i am wont to do, i did a:
> >
> >   $ bitbake -c fetchall core-image-minimal
> >
> > to (allegedly) fetch everything i would need for such a build.
> >
> >   at that point, i did:
> >
> >   $ bitbake core-image-minimal
> >
> > and while this is running, i can see more source tarballs being pulled
> > into the downloads directory -- examples:
> >
> >   * file-5.13.tar.gz
> >   * icu4c-50_1_2-src.tgz
> >   * mklibs_0.1.34.tar.gz
> >   * pcre-8.32.tar.bz2
> >
> > and perhaps more since the build is not yet done.
> >
> >   what is it about these particular packages that doesn't fall under
> > the regular fetching from "-c fetchall"?
>
> Which version of bitbake and the metadata was this with? There were some
> issues fixed in that area fairly recently if I remember rightly.

  the newest version of bitbake seems to resolve this, but i now
remember when i first tripped across this, and this was with the
setting of:

  EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot"

where the "fetchall" didn't seem to process the variable
EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS, which resulted in the appropriate source for
u-boot not being fetched until build time. do you know if that was
addressed? thanks.

rday

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