[poky] sstate status

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
>Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 12:35 AM
>
>Hi all,
>
>I've been doing some tests with sstate, and I've managed to get to a stage where I can
>share the SSTATE_DIR between my two machines (one running Fedora 14 and the other
>Kubuntu 10.10) and almost get a successful build from a clean TMPDIR. My last test got to
>poky-image-minimal.do_rootfs and then failed due to some kind of package dependency
>issue:
>
>--------- snip ---------
>| Processing rpm...
>| Processing zypper...
>| error: Failed dependencies:
>|       elfutils >= 0.148 is needed by rpm-5.1.10-r7.i586
>|       libaugeas0 >= 0.7.3 is needed by
>zypper-1.4.7+git0+9eb0e248e06c8d20ad054be2439149d9ede37531-r1.i586
>| ERROR: Task failed: ('function do_rootfs failed',
>'/home/pokystuff/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-1.0-r0/temp/log.
>do_rootfs.6874')
>--------- snip ---------
>
>A "bitbake -c clean augeas elfutils" and then "bitbake poky-image-minimal" again went
>through OK (and built the aforementioned recipes from sstate) , so I'm not sure what went
>wrong here.
>
>My current state of work is in the paule/sstate contrib branch, which is based on Kevin's
>tk/sstate branch. Kevin, I think the sooner we can move this towards master the better,
>then we can get some wider testing.

Thanks for your fixes. I made some mistakes when occasionally rebase and smash my 
commits with master and it's good that you caught them. I agree that we need make it
into master as early as possible. I saw Richard has pushed some different enhancements.
Let's give it some tests then.

Thanks
Kevin

>
>FYI Joshua has made bug #507 into a tracking bug for current sstate issues:
>http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507
>