Re: Image dependency broken

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2013-05-15 08:53, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 15:46 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 08:40 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> * Build an image, e.g. core-image-sato
>>>     $ bitbake core-image-sato
>>> * Cause some dependency to be rebuilt
>>>     $ bitbake xserver-xorg -c cleansstate
>>> * Rebuild the image
>>>     $ bitbake core-image-sato
>>
>> That's probably to be expected.  You haven't done anything to actually
>> change the xserver-xorg package, just regenerated the same bits as you
>> had before, so there's no reason why the image would need rebuilding.
>>
>> Does it rebuild the image correctly if you do make a change to the
>> xserver-xorg package?
>
> Agreed, this is expected since the xserver-xorg output is unchanged and
> therefore the system is deciding it doesn't need to rebuild the image.
> If you change xserver-xorg somehow the checksum will change and the
> image will rebuild.

Understood.  I'm sure that I had a recipe which did have such a change
that failed to cause my image to be rebuilt (not this contrived example
that I thought was the same).  However, I can't make it happen now.

If it happens again, I'll get back to you.

Thanks

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