[yocto] What's this

[Joshua G Lock]

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 18:58 +0200, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2016-06-07 18:20, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > 
> > On 7 June 2016 at 17:02, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com
> > <mailto: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).
> > 
> 
> Ah, that's probably it.  Exactly how do I set that exclusion?

Assuming DISTRO_VERSION includes DATETIME

    DISTRO_VERSION[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"

see for example:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta-poky/conf/dist
ro/poky.conf#n14

Regards,

Joshua