Interesting problem when using SRCREV...

[James Mills]

Hello all.

I have recently moved to the OE "stable" tree and bitbake 1.8.8.  I
use bitbake/OE to generate packages within my company that live on top
of OE platforms.  I made this move primarily to take advantage of the
new SRCREV implementation.  Basically, I have a top level package that
depends on all the needed packages to form the software we have
developed, and I want to be able to call:

 bitbake TOP-LEVEL-PACKAGE

and have everything that has changed rebuild itself.

So, to that end, I built a test package that *should* update everytime
I call "bitbake test", assuming something in the tree has changed.
However, I am actually seeing that the "bitbake test" command will
only rebuild after I have "touched" the bb file,  through editing or
using the "touch" command on the file.  I notice when running with
"-D", I can see the test_1.0.0.bb file getting removed from the cache
if I have touched or edited it.  Otherwise I do not see this message.

Here is my sample bb file.  Hopefully someone can spot the problem.
I'd rather not have to ensure all bb's I want to build get "touched"
first! :)

==========================

DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = 1
SRCREV = ${@bb.fetch.get_srcrev(d)}
PR=${SRCREV}
BB_SRCREV_POLICY = "clear"
DESCRIPTION = "Test Package"
SECTION = "devel/pxa"
PRIORITY = "optional"
LICENSE = "GPL"

SRC_URI = "svn://svn.afakesite.fake/svn/research/src/;module=trunk;proto=https \
           "


do_install() {
  install -m 0755 -d ${D}/tmp
}

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My SRC_URI has also had "srcdate=now" in it, with the same results.

Thanks!

James Mills