Re: [OE-core] cleansstate

["Rasmus Villemoes" <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>]

On 22/08/2020 09.27, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 17:32 -0700, Tom King wrote:
>> What would be a use case for cleanstate?
> 
> I never really wanted to add it at all. There is/was some case for
> wanting to remove sstate objects and ensure something really does
> rebuild from source. When sstate was new and had more issues, people
> really wanted it and I was pushed into having it exist.
> 
> I understand why people want it although it should never really need to
> be used.

Well, except when you discover that your sstate is effectively
corrupted/polluted by objects that happen to have the same hashes as
those computed from current recipes, but the build artifacts
would/should be different. Such as when using a file://foo/* glob
pattern in SRC_URI.

Richard, I'm still hoping you'd respond in the
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/75235594
thread. As I see it, half-way supporting glob patterns in file:// URIs
is a giant footgun.

Rasmus