[poky] sstate status

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:50 PM
>
>On Wednesday 08 December 2010 14:15:45 Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> It's a little different from my case, though I also observed lots of packages
>> rebuilt besides native ones.
>
>This is what I saw as well.
>
>> How did you check the hash has been changed? In my case git-native
>> simply overrides sstate package with same checksum.
>
>I hacked together a shell script that looks for .siginfo files with the same package/arch/task
>but a different hash; if it finds these then it uses bitbake-diffsigs to compare them.
>
>As for the sstate packages being overwritten, I assume this is happening in my case as I
>can see the packages being rebuilt in the bitbake output.
>
>> Also I found that git-native.do_populate_setsecene is not scheduled at all,
>> which may be the reason for the rebuilt, but I haven't got the cause.
>
>Hmm, then it could be unrelated to the general problem.
>
>You didn't see this behaviour with your tk/sstate branch I presume?
>

I think so. I just observed this behavior after my vacation last week. But it may also
come from other changes, not exactly from sstate related ones imo. There're some
bitbake changes in the middle I think.

Thanks
Kevin