Re: Heads up: basichash being enabled for poky by default

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-02-21 15:03, Richard Purdie wrote:
> This is just to warn people that I'm going to push a change making
> basichash the default for DISTRO=poky as of tomorrow. This change has
> been brewing for a while and has seen plenty of discussion. Its time to
> throw the switch:
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?id=f65bbb41d6fe9763acbd80df5885b3526259ce80
>
> I haven't yet decided what should happen when in OE-Core and am open to
> opinions on that.
>
> If you're not ready for the change, you can still set:
>
> BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = 'OEbasic'
>
> to get the existing behaviour either at a local or distro level. The
> difference is one will include the sstate hash in the files in
> tmp/stamps/*. This means if the hash changes, it gets rebuilt.
>
> As a result of this commit your tree will rebuild. I'll bump the TMPDIR
> ABI version number at the same time so people more easily spot the
> change and can either revert or continue at their choice.

For those of us not using DISTRO=poky, what are the pros & cons
of the various signature handler settings?

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