[yocto] What's this

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2016 17:20:12 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 7 June 2016 at 17:02, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> > It means the hash calculated my the bitbake master was different to the
> > hash calculated when the worker started up.  This usually means that
> > you're
> > using something like ${TIME} in the recipe but not marking it appropriatly
> > so the cache ignores it.  Do you have a base-files bbappend that writes a
> > timestamp?
> 
> The always wise Joshua reminds me that if your DISTRO_VERSION contains
> ${DATETIME} then this happens.  If you're doing this then you'll want to
> set [vardepsexclude] on DISTRO_VERSION to stop the DATETIME from getting
> into the cache (or not put the current date/time into the distro version).

I think we need to handle this situation better - if it's really worth 
producing an error about then it's worth producing an error message that 
people can actually understand, particularly as it's recently added 
validation.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre