[yocto] Another sstate rebuild issue, badly need help understanding sstate

[Vuille, Martin (Martin)]

Hi Richard,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: November 03, 2014 10:06 AM
> 
> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 12:53 +0000, Vuille, Martin (Martin) wrote:
> > I have a variable “REV_TOOLS” defined in distro/conf/somename.conf in
> > a custom distro layer from a git repo.
> >
> > This variable is assigned to SRCREV in a number of recipes (SRCREV =
> > “${REV_TOOLS}”) for packages included in my images and SDKs.
> 
> Can you describe how the value of REV_TOOLS is set? Is it just assigned
> some value or done with some code?
> 

REV_TOOLS = "<some git commit hash string>"

> Does clearing the bitbake cache make things rebuild as expected (mv
> tmp/cache tmp/cache-old) ?
> 

I did a cleansstate on the affected packages and they rebuild as expected.

MV