[yocto] Correct procedure for rebuilding after a git pull

[Jack Mitchell]

On 03/10/12 14:27, James Abernathy wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com 
> <mailto:ross.burton at intel.com>>wrote:
>
>     On 3 October 2012 14:05, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Now I see a bunch of patches pushed to Denzil branch and I want
>     to test
>     > them.  My build directory is untouched since the successful
>     build before.
>     > What do I do to rebuild my project to include the latest
>     patches.  I've
>     > tried things like "bitbake -c cleansstate core-image-cdv-media"
>     before the
>     > new "bitbake core-image-cdv-media" and I've tried just rebaking
>     by itself.
>     > Something always fails.  I've learned that to really test I have to
>     > completely delete my build directory saving only my local.conf and
>     > bblayer.conf.
>
>     Just git pull ; bitbake should work -- all of the packages that
>     changed will rebuild without any problems.
>
>     That's the theory, and everyone who works against oe-core/poky master
>     does this ever day (including me).
>
>     Can you give an example of something that fails?
>
>     The most recent patch update to Denzil included some Cedartrail
>     BSP updates to the CDV PVR driver.  I was traveling last week and
>     I was out of date on my poky and meta-intel by at least that
>     long.  Monday was the pull.  So when the rebuild happened, I got a
>     cdv-pvr driver configuration error.  I didn't look into why
>     because of my experience of this taking longer than a complete
>     rebuild.  So I deleted the build directory and did the rebuild. 
>     And I didn't get the error on the rebuild.  Everything still works
>     fine for me on that BSP.
>
> Jim A
>
>     Ross
>
>

I also use this work flow. If something goes wrong with a particular 
package then I will -c cleansstate failed-package and then start the 
build again. This usually fixes it.

Regards,

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