sstate status

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

Hi all,

I've been doing some tests with sstate, and I've managed to get to a stage where I can share the SSTATE_DIR between my two machines (one running Fedora 14 and the other Kubuntu 10.10) and almost get a successful build from a clean TMPDIR. My last test got to poky-image-minimal.do_rootfs and then failed due to some kind of package dependency issue:

--------- snip ---------
| Processing rpm...
| Processing zypper...
| error: Failed dependencies:
|       elfutils >= 0.148 is needed by rpm-5.1.10-r7.i586
|       libaugeas0 >= 0.7.3 is needed by zypper-1.4.7+git0+9eb0e248e06c8d20ad054be2439149d9ede37531-r1.i586
| ERROR: Task failed: ('function do_rootfs failed', '/home/pokystuff/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.6874')
--------- snip ---------

A "bitbake -c clean augeas elfutils" and then "bitbake poky-image-minimal" again went through OK (and built the aforementioned recipes from sstate) , so I'm not sure what went wrong here.

My current state of work is in the paule/sstate contrib branch, which is based on Kevin's tk/sstate branch. Kevin, I think the sooner we can move this towards master the better, then we can get some wider testing.

FYI Joshua has made bug #507 into a tracking bug for current sstate issues:
http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507

Cheers,
Paul