From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/21] Add directory information to the pkgdata files
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:33:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369902787.14887.281.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2488771.kIoG59Gxit@helios>
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 09:29 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2013 15:44:58 Mark Hatle wrote:
> > On 5/29/13 2:59 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 11:30 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> > >> It's up to the tooling that are using these files to check if the
> > >> directory
> > >> exists, if it does not -- then using bitbake -c patch <recipe> will
> > >> create it. (even in the sstate-cache case.)
> > >
> > > I'm not sure whether checking that the directory exists is all that
> > > safe; in the shared-sstate scenario I think it's conceivable that the
> > > directory might exist but contain something else, or be unreadable due
> > > to permissions, or disappear underneath you while you're using it.
> > >
> > > And, of course, "bitbake -c patch ..." won't necessarily create the same
> > > ${S} that you got from pkgdata in that case, it will create it in your
> > > local TMPDIR.
> >
> > On 5/29/13 12:36 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > Hi Mark
> > >
> > > This won't work well when package is populated from sstate is there a way
> > > for it to work seamlessly across sstate it might be useful
> >
> > I was looking at this again. I thought the pkgdata was reconstructed each
> > time in the current TMPDIR. I didn't realize it was just restored from the
> > sstate-cache. (We've got other patches in layers that trigger pkgdata-like
> > files to be generated as well.. and I must have gotten the two confused.)
>
> I think this is new behaviour for 1.4, so that might explain some of the
> confusion. Previously the pkgdata generation happened in do_package, but now
> that do_rootfs and other places rely upon the presence of pkgdata, it is now a
> separate task so it can be accelerated by sstate and do_package doesn't need
> to be re-run.
It moved from do_package to do_packagedata (or whatever its called) in
1.4 for performance reasons but it has always been installed from the
sstate cache since the beginning of sstate.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-29 15:09 [PATCH 0/21] Misc patch set Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 1/21] libxpm: inherit gettext Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 2/21] Add directory information to the pkgdata files Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:11 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-05-29 15:23 ` Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:59 ` Martin Jansa
2013-05-29 16:30 ` Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 17:36 ` Khem Raj
2013-05-29 19:59 ` Phil Blundell
2013-05-29 20:44 ` Mark Hatle
2013-05-30 8:29 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-05-30 8:33 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 3/21] cmake.bbclass: modify construction of compiler flags Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 4/21] acpid: modify CFLAGS Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 5/21] libpam: Avoid wildcards in the SRC_URI Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 6/21] util-linux: Add ability to compile with nativesdk Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 7/21] dbus-glib: use BPN instead of PN Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 8/21] initscripts: let status return 0 when proc is running well Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 9/21] pull ldlinux.sys and isolinux.bin from correct places Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 10/21] ncurses, busybox, cml1.bbclass: Fix menuconfig display corruption Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 21:15 ` Richard Purdie
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 11/21] guile: don't search for libreadline in host libdir Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 12/21] dpkg-native: Fix native perl path Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 13/21] qmake_base.bbclass:add linux-gnun32-oe-g++ to QMAKESPEC Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 14/21] portmap: /etc/init.d/portmap restart complains "command not found" Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 15/21] fix libnl two parentheses bugs in lib/cache_mngr.c file Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 16/21] bind: add ipv6 support Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:09 ` [PATCH 17/21] grep: fix for CVE-2012-5667 Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 21:21 ` Richard Purdie
2013-05-29 15:10 ` [PATCH 18/21] Fix problems expanding the IMAGE_INSTALL package groups Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 21:10 ` Richard Purdie
2013-05-29 21:28 ` Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 21:59 ` Richard Purdie
2013-05-30 10:46 ` Phil Blundell
2013-05-30 12:22 ` Mark Hatle
2013-05-30 20:10 ` Richard Purdie
2013-05-29 15:10 ` [PATCH 19/21] siteinfo.bbclass: Add mips64 common siteinfo Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:10 ` [PATCH 20/21] cracklib: Allow byte order patch to work on older Linux hosts Mark Hatle
2013-05-29 15:10 ` [PATCH 21/21] libarchive: Fix build dependencies Mark Hatle
2013-05-30 0:53 ` [PATCH 0/21] Misc patch set Saul Wold
2013-05-30 3:55 ` Mark Hatle
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