From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id E751FE00B44; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 05:22:17 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D53E00B3D for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 05:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id DD66FF811DC; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 06:22:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91933F811D7; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 06:22:15 -0700 (MST) To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <563B5700.3050306@mlbassoc.com> From: Gary Thomas Message-ID: <563B5857.4090602@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 06:23:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <563B5700.3050306@mlbassoc.com> Subject: Re: tarballs from git X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:22:18 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2015-11-05 06:17, Gary Thomas wrote: > I use BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" to generate tarballs > from the various git-based recipes I use. For the most part > this works great and once the tar file is generated, it just > gets reused. > > However, just now I rebuilt my kernel which uses such a git > SRC_URI and the tar file was rebuilt even though I can't see > anything that was newly fetched. I had built from the same > recipe yesterday (today I only touched a patch which changed > neither the recipe nor the SRCREV, etc) and the tar file from > last month was used. Looking through the generated tar file, > I can see that the last file updated was last Oct 5, so there > should have been no reason to rebuild the tar file. > > Is there some trace (log file, etc) that might tell me why > this happened? > Never mind - there were some differences that I missed. That said, I'm still not sure what made it refetch the GIT tree as I didn't change the SRCREV nor the recipe (only updated a patch in the recipe) so the necessary BRANCH+SRCREV should have been in the previous tar file. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------