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Won't Toaster give you the insight you seek?

I still need to ramp up on mastering it, but I was hoping it would help 
with this sort of thing.



On 11/01/2014 08:08 AM, Vuille, Martin (Martin) wrote:
> I am using Poky daisy / Yocto 1.6.1
>
> Occasionally, when building a custom image or SDK after changing
>
> a package recipe or package content, I find that the do_rootfs task is not
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> executed for the image or the do_populate_sdk task is not executed
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> for the sdk.
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> There are custom classes, packages, packagegroups involved, so it is
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> possible, nay likely, that the problem is something I did or should’ve
>
> done but didn’t.
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> How to approach this problem?
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> Because the problem is intermittent, I usually won’t realize there was
>
> a problem until after bitbake is done and didn’t build what I expected.
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> Is there a way to retrospectively review bitbake’s decision-making?
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> Or do I need to run with –DDD all the time?
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> MV
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>
>