Re: [PATCH] sstate.bbclass: preserve time when unstaging files

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 16:11 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> When packages are recreated after a 'bitbake -c clean', files will get
> wrong date because tar has been invoked with the '-m' option.
> 
> Correct timestamps are useful for bug hunting and there are better
> ways (e.g. using of ntp) than using '-m'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
> ---
>  meta/classes/sstate.bbclass | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
> index cbb14e1..d7c4e11 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
> @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ sstate_create_package () {
>  sstate_unpack_package () {
>  	mkdir -p ${SSTATE_INSTDIR}
>  	cd ${SSTATE_INSTDIR}
> -	tar -xmvzf ${SSTATE_PKG}
> +	tar -xvzf ${SSTATE_PKG}
>  }
>  
>  # Need to inject information about classes not in the global configuration scope

This is a revert of:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=2d89cff42af2bb0049224bfaaebaa2b21966169f

where the option was added deliberately to deal with time mismatch
between autobuilders which was causing real world bugs.

Cheers,

Richard