[yocto] tarballs from git

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-11-05 06:17, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I use BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" to generate tarballs
> from the various git-based recipes I use.  For the most part
> this works great and once the tar file is generated, it just
> gets reused.
>
> However, just now I rebuilt my kernel which uses such a git
> SRC_URI and the tar file was rebuilt even though I can't see
> anything that was newly fetched.  I had built from the same
> recipe yesterday (today I only touched a patch which changed
> neither the recipe nor the SRCREV, etc) and the tar file from
> last month was used.  Looking through the generated tar file,
> I can see that the last file updated was last Oct 5, so there
> should have been no reason to rebuild the tar file.
>
> Is there some trace (log file, etc) that might tell me why
> this happened?
>

Never mind - there were some differences that I missed.

That said, I'm still not sure what made it refetch the GIT tree
as I didn't change the SRCREV nor the recipe (only updated a
patch in the recipe) so the necessary BRANCH+SRCREV should have
been in the previous tar file.

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