[poky] sstate status

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Richard Purdie
>Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 6:12 AM
>
>Hi,
>
>On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 16:34 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> FYI Joshua has made bug #507 into a tracking bug for current sstate issues:
>> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507
>
>Kevin/Paul:
>
>I notice a number of patches in your branches which shouldn't be needed
>if we use the two patches at the head of:
>
>http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=rpurdie/tweaks2
>
>Could you please test using those two changes, or let me know if those
>changes cause problems.
>

Sure. However my remote machine in office is down unexpectedly. I'll verify it later
when going to office next week.

BTW, on my branch there're also some bug fixes out of environmental variables issue,
which could you take a look whether they're correct?

http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=tk/sstate&id=7a6fc816766ea925591a0cf6ae17383a953ae061, siggen.py: set 'runtaskdeps' correctly

http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=tk/sstate&id=0a4c46dc2c122ef5c1057380e79b75e302583b4a, siggen.py: fix python error when comparing sstate generated from different srcpath

http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=tk/sstate&id=7d6dd0b5717b565f478c88d53cf5e53e139f1141, siggen.py: fix the wrong usage on BB_TASKHASH_WHITELIST

Thanks
Kevin