On Monday 01 February 2016 at 11:14:50 +0000, Mike Crowe wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2016 at 17:42:13 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 15:47 +0000, Mike Crowe wrote: > > > It turned out that whilst the populate_sysroot.gz and package_ipk.tgz > > > files > > > were still in the sstate-cache, the package.tgz tarball was not. This > > > meant > > > that the whole package was built again in order to satisfy the build > > > dependencies of other packages that had changed.
> > The "right" answer here is to figure out what in your builds seems to > > be needing the package.tgz files. > > > > The only time the system should need to pull the package tgzs from > > sstate is if package_qa or package_write_* were going to rerun. This > > doesn't happen often, if ever. I've sometimes wondered if we should in > > fact generate them. They are useful for switching package backends. > > > > So the fact they're not getting touched doesn't surprise me. The more > > concerning thing is that its actually trying to use them. > > > > We have found a number of bugs in this area in sstate and have some > > patches merged, I know there are a small number pending too. Whether > > we've found all the issues remains unknown. > > The branch we saw this on was using dizzy from about > e848484989307ae6826ba0f5217f7702322181e3 so it's quite likely that we're > lacking some more recent fixes. For those following along at home, it appears that only four commits are required to remove the need for the package.tgz files and they cherry-pick easily: 80b3974081c4a8c604e23982a6db8fb32c616058 06c891f0fa6c7712eae233dd18612f1ab1889c45 76aa4f49db7d32bbd35703c64470fdfc63f403a4 654f0eec426e882e50f688f6d097d992e34e5b40 Thanks again for your help. Mike. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
