Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] bitbake: add --skip-deps option to re-run tasks directly

[adrian.freihofer@gmail.com]

Hi Alex

On Wed, 2025-12-31 at 10:11 +0100, Alexander Kanavin via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 at 16:36, Adrian Freihofer via
> lists.openembedded.org
> <adrian.freihofer=siemens.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> > This is aimed at development workflows (for example devtool ide-
> > sdk)
> > where an IDE or developer wants to re-run a single task (such as
> > do_install) and then deploy or debug it on a target without
> > rebuilding
> > or executing unrelated dependent tasks.
> 
> The patch is horribly invasive, and I'm afraid the premise for it is
> shaky, and should've been discussed here first.

We are discussing this since a very long time. My previous attempt is
here:
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/223669.

With the new attempt I'm trying to follow the advice from Richard to
add a feature to bitbake which allows to address this use case in a
generic way.

> 
> Can you formulate the problem more specifically? What are those
> unrelated dependent tasks? Why do we want to skip them? They are in
> the dependency tree for a reason: so that configure/compile/install
> can run without error. Even if compile is replaced with some kind of
> IDE-specific re-implementation, it still needs those pieces.

If compile is done by the IDE, there is no need for doing it again.
Resolving the full dependency chain is not what an SDK should do.
That's very important.

Reagrds,
Adrian

> 
> Alex
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